In today's era with private space enterprise a reality, the possibilities of incredible new spacedrive technologies, and a plan to colonize Mars in the coming decade, it's a perfect time to be a space nerd.

But the question is that when humankind will reach Mars, then what flag will we be planting proudly in the surface.

In reality there is an Outer Space Treaty (part of Space Law, which is also a thing) that bans countries from claiming celestial bodies as territory. Thus, a Swedish designer has taken it upon himself to create the International Flag of Planet Earth.

Oskar Pernefeldt has designed it as a graduation project at the Beckmans College of Design, but it's not yet an 'official' flag for Earth. However, it would be decided soon, yet NASA has thanked the contributors' page for the project. Though, nobody knows that how they were involved.

Pernefeldt wrote about the project, "Current expeditions in outer space use different national flags depending on which country is funding the voyage. The space travelers, however, are more than just representatives of their own countries. They are representatives of planet Earth".

Being a designer, he decided to design something that not only reflect humanity's existing flags, but also has some meaning in the symbol.

Pernefeldt chose a deep, rich blue as his primary color to offset a pure white flower because our little pale blue dot is unique in our survey of the known universe so far for its large quantities of liquid surface water.

In the centre of the flag, there are seven rings that form a flower which is a symbol of the life on Earth. These rings are linked to each other, representing how everything on our planet is linked directly or indirectly.

The outer rings of the flower form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe.