Flag of Mars Deimos, and the light blue crescent might allude to the limited amount of water and breathable air present on Mars that is necessary for human life. Flag of Mars A flag of Mars is a flag or flag design that represents the planet Mars or that represents a fictional Martian government. Science fiction authors have, for literary purposes, described the flags of fictional Martian governments. Some of the readers of those flag descriptions have created flags or flag images that are based on the authors’ descriptions. Flag images for two fictional Martian governments are presented in this article. Advocates of
Mars to Stay Bas Lansdorp to establish a permanent human colony on Mars. Mars One is a Dutch not-for-profit foundation, a "Stichting". The proposal is to send a communication satellite and path finder lander to the planet by 2018 and, after several stages, land four humans on Mars for permanent settlement in 2027. A new set of four astronauts would then arrive every two years. 200,000 applications were started; about 2,500 were complete enough for consideration, from which one hundred applicants have been chosen so far. Further selections are planned to narrow this down to six groups of four before training begins in