Nov 13, 2009
Discovery of Water on the Moon
This Doodle’s Key Themes
One question that us doodlers answer pretty often is "how long does it take to draw a doodle?" Well, sometimes it takes a few weeks (since we talk to local experts on the relevance and appropriateness of our work), other times we have a year to think about a doodle (Halloween, for example, happens every year), and then there are occasions like this doodle. The discovery of water on the moon was a fun project because I had about four hours to work on this from start to finish. I was sitting at my desk at 9 am, Pacific time, when I stumbled on an article about this current event. I quickly sent the article to my team and, by the time I was about to take a bite out of my lunch, I received a call to have this doodle sketched, drafted, finished, and live on all our homepages in four hours. It was an exciting day for a doodler and the world of science!
posted by Jennifer Hom
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