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The Moon Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploration of the
Moon, introduced a flag in 2006 which is clearly derived from the
Mars Society proposal for the flag of Mars by
replacing its red, green and blue colors with gray, blue and green,
respectively. These colors symbolize the moon dust (gray), water (blue) and
vegetation and biosphere (green). The flag was used by the members of Moon
Society who were members of the Crew 45 of the Mars Desert Research Station, the
research project by the Mars Society. The shades of flag colors vary a lot on
its photos due to extremely varying lighting conditions, but comparing with the
photos of the tricolor of Mars, which was used at the same time, reveals that
the green color has the same, or almost the same, shade on both flags and the
blue is lighter on the flag of Moon.
Sources:
[1] Moon Society website
- proposals for the flag of Moon (including the 2006 flag):
http://www.moonsociety.org/flag/
[2] Mars Desert Research Station, Crew 45 (MDRS-45) photo gallery:
http://freemars.org/mnfan/MarsSociety/2006/MDRS/Crew45/
[3]
HobbySpace.com website - Interview with Peter Kokh, commander of MDRS-45:
http://www.hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/archive/Interviews/Advocacy/PeterKokh.html
Tomislav Todorovic, 16 May 2015