--- title: TIME and Google+ Celebrate Earth Day description: Selections from TIME's photo editors featured on massive Times Square billboard for Earth Day. canonical: https://time.com/70978/best-earth-day-photos/ author: Bryan Walsh article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-22T12:58:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:27.386Z article:section: Science og:title: Google+ and TIME bring you our planet through your eyes og:description: Google+ & TIME team up to find beautiful pictures of our planet. Selections made by TIME's photo editors are featured in Times Square for Earth Day. og:url: https://time.com/70978/best-earth-day-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt073348b6df2ef4b5/69868ace1eebf71a6b37069b/earth-day-photos.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: earth day photos og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google+ and TIME bring you our planet through your eyes twitter:description: Google+ & TIME team up to find beautiful pictures of our planet. Selections made by TIME's photo editors are featured in Times Square for Earth Day. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt073348b6df2ef4b5/69868ace1eebf71a6b37069b/earth-day-photos.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Portraits of the Planet for Earth Day  by [Bryan Walsh](https://time.com/author/bryan-walsh/)  ## Bryan Walsh Apr 22, 2014 12:58 PM UTC  Looking at the Icebergs, Near Franklin Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica in 2006. Looking at the Icebergs, Near Franklin Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica in 2006.Camille Seaman  by [Bryan Walsh](https://time.com/author/bryan-walsh/)  ## Bryan Walsh Apr 22, 2014 12:58 PM UTC  The NASDAQ billboard in Times Square features Google+ users' earth day photos selected by TIME's photo editors. Wesley Houser / Google Mars is nice and Jupiter has a big red spot, but there’s no more gorgeous planet in the known galaxy than Earth. On a day when we tend focus on the threats to the Earth—which are many—we should also take time to celebrate the varied beauty found throughout our home. [Google+ collected photos](http://mybeautifulearth.withgoogle.com/) from around the world tagged with [#MyBeautifulEarth](https://plus.google.com/explore/mybeautifulearth), and TIME editors culled through the images to find the very best. The pictures that appear below are visual reminders of the Earth’s diversity, from fathomless oceans to glowing volcanoes to alpine glaciers. The only constants are color—and overwhelming beauty. 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