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Shaun Moss Earth Flag (Moon modified by PK to make a better match with mated Moon Flag below
Peter Kokh's suggestion for a Moon flag that would be compatible with the suggested Earth flag above.
On the Moon the sky is always black. The white face of the Moon is turned sunward.
Shaun's "Earth" is shown over the night side of the Moon, although Earth is just as often seen from the sunlit side - one can only carry the analogy so far.
Shaun, feel free to play with this idea further
The day/night terminatior, instead of perpendicular to the Sun-Earth axis is straight up and down as is the white | green. brown | blue line on the stylized Earth.
I think these flags make a nice pair!
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I had previously come up with an Earth flag also using the four colors, but in bands with white at the poles, then blue, then brown, and a single green band at the equator. Then, instead of a globe, I took the familiar orange peel map projection without the continent outlines, because the shape of this orange peel suggests the disposition of the continents. It says this is not any white-blue-green-brown Earth like planet. This IS Earth!
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Thousands of copies of the above in coloring book outline form with instructions for coloring have been given to school kids around the country in the past decade or so. But other than that, I never really promoted it. People DO like it, and they instantly get the ideas behind it.
But I DO like your flag concept, and I think that introducing an Earth flag and a Moon flag as a matched pair will greatly promote acceptance of both.
(I do NOT like the KSR/Pascal Lee/Zubrin Mars tricolor flag !!! At the least the red should be replaced with the tawny ochre real shade of Mars - but it is becoming entrenched.) What's more, they forgot a color: In temporal sequence it should be Red Mars, Muddy Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars! Once the atmosphere is thickened and warm enough, and water added, we will have generations of muddy Mars, before the Green vegetation starts to take ove. Ugh, I hate mud!
Here is one of many Moon flag attempts I have made.
Sunlight plus water from the poles supports a lunar settlement biosphere
Below is another design that incorporates the gray of the Moon, the yellow of the Sun, the blue of water, and the green of (future) vegetation.
Below is a Lunar version of the Martian Tricolor flag, eversing the green-blue sequence of the latter: we start with gray regolith, add water, and create a green mini-biosphere. The Moon Society flew this glag at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah during its 2-week Moonbase Simulation exercise in early 2006.
Here is a possible mated Earth flag
Showing polar caps, the global ocean, and a pangea land surface of temperate forests, deserts, tropical forests
This Earth flag by the late James W. (Jim) Cadle of St. Joseph, Illinois says it very simply
Check his memorial website at http://www.flagofearth.net/
Have fun.
Peter Kokh