Talk:Flag of Mars

Ugly image
This image is totally ugly. The shade of green is wrong. Can anybody create a better version?--Sonjaaa 05:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Is this better at all? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/800px-Flag_of_Mars_copy.png The red's too pinkish, probably. I wasn't able to find any pictures of the actual flag itself. Moncubus 18:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Here is a page with pictures of the actual flag itself: http://www.marssociety.org/arctic/2004/fmimg072904.asp . The colours can be a bit more bright. And the Ukrainian Wikipedia has also a uploaded photo of a flag. Peter Maas 11:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

The colours are horrible, it would be nice if there was a blue flag behind it with a NASA symbol or Mars in the center, it has the smaller flags who contributed in getting to Mars (America, Europe, Russia, etc etc.) --62.31.182.173 (talk) 19:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Primary Colors
"...provided the concept for the flag, which, coincidentally, also represents the three primary colors of light." - Where did this statement come from? Green is not a primary color, it's a mix of yellow and blue. Yellow is the primary color. Could someone please change this?

I agree that this statement is absolutely wrong. Green is a secondary color comprised of blue and yellow. The wikipedia article on primary colors even states, "Traditionally, the colors red, yellow, and blue are considered to be primary pigments in the art world. However, this is not technically true, or is at least inaccurate. The three primary colors of pigment are magenta, yellow, and cyan." In either case, the article needs to be changed.


 * Primary pigment isn't the same thing as primary color in light. The primary colors of light are indeed red, blue, and green. Read on in the primary colors article until you get to the difference between additive and subtractive primaries. --Cairnarvon 06:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * regardless though, the flag doesn't represent either the additive (RBY) or subtractive (CYM) primary colors, it represents the primary three colors of CRT display :( —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.73.48.43 (talk) 05:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC).
 * Yellow isn't an additive primary color. Green is.

75.144.110.148 (talk) 20:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Mars has no flag
Isn't this article misleading, in that the planet Mars has no flag, official or otherwise? I would hate for someone to see this article and think that there is such a thing as the "flag of Mars" Wikipedia should not be in the business of promoting misinformation like this. Also, this article does not cite any sources. If the Mars Society and the Planetary Society approved this flag, I'd like to see that cited. -- 18:10, 1 December 2008 User:Diderot08


 * Well, we also have articles on Flag of Antarctica, etc. AnonMoos (talk) 13:09, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Evolutionary Nature of Flag
Please maintain a sense of the contingent, evolutionary nature of "a flag representing Mars." There is considerable debate within the Mars Society as to its design and even whether there should be a flag. Individual chapters occasionally hold competitions and critical reviews of various flag designs. — Preceding comment added by Ericmachmer (talk • contribs) 19:42, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Site from which information about the on going evolution of this flag may be found, if this article were to be updated: http://flagspot.net/flags/qp-4.html#ms

Maybe credit to Kim Stanley Robinson?
The first thing that was brought to mind, and not mentioned in the article, was that the colors reflect the Mars Trilogy works of Kim Stanley Robinson.... Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars.

His works predate any such notions of those mentioned in the article.

I am not sure about including this data, since I am new to commenting on Wikipedia... the fact that the flag cannot directly be traced to a single starting point is an issue.

AreThree (talk) 07:01, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Predating Kim Stanley Robinson, the 1953 Duck Dodgers cartoon featured a Martian flag: a red circle on pink background, looking as if someone had laundered a cheap flag of Japan and the color ran. It's kind of surprising this isn't already on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.75.22 (talk) 09:21, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

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New proposal by Calder Hansen
Any thoughts on including the proposal by Calder Hansen for a new flag of mars? It's described here: http://www.flagofmars.com/

Taitcha (talk) 16:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * What evidence is there that this person, or his flag, are in any way notable? What coverage has it received in reliable sources? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 16:53, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There is none. It seems to be a case of self published material, and has been removed. Garuda28 (talk) 16:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Flag from Mars Attacks!
One Martian flag which is notable, and even famous in its own right, must be the one which appears in the Tim Burton film Mars Attacks! (1996). When Jack Nicholson's character, US President Dale, makes an impassioned plea for peace, the apparently moved Martian Ambassador approaches extending the hand of friendship — which promptly detaches from its host, scampers up the President's arm, goes around his back and shoots out a spike, skewering him and killing him outright: then the hand perches on his lifeless chest and its spike duly produces an unfolding flag of conquest: a green rectangle charged with a black disc, in which appear a redbrick pyramid surmounted by a staring red-irised eyeball. (The Eye of Providence above its pyramid, from the Great Seal, is doubtless being referenced satirically.)

Nuttyskin (talk) 12:01, 23 January 2022 (UTC)