Interactive Buckyball Google Doodle Released

Google is celebrating buckyball's 25th anniversary by commemorating it in an interactive Google Doodle on Google's homepage.

For today, Google's official logo on its homepage is replaced by an interactive animated buckyball doodle. What's a buckyball, you ask? Discovered in 1985, buckyball is a carbon molecule structure (C60) shaped like a hollow sphere, in general. A buckyball, or fullerene (buckminsterfullerene), is strictly composed of carbon atoms.

Imagine it to be a wire-frame design of a football, for instance, and you have a pretty good mental picture of how a buckyball looks. And it is the subject of today's Goggle Doodle, the buckyball.

If you visit Google.com or Google.co.in, notice the buckyball in place of Google logo's center 'O'. The buckyball twitches and turns if you roll your PC mouse over it, and spins while you mouse-over Google's homepage in general. As always, click on the buckyball doodle to know more about it from Google search.

In May earlier this year, Google celebrated Pacman's 30th anniversary by hosting a first-of-its-kind playable Google Doodle in place of its official homepage logo -- Google later said it's hosting the Pacman game forever for people to enjoy. Now this current buckyball interactive Google Doodle is different than normal pictorial logos that Google devises to celebrate important regional and worldwide occasions of mainly scientific and cultural significance.