With that in mind, a Swedish artist has dreamed up “The International Flag of Planet Earth.” Oskar Pernefeldt designed the new ensign as part of a final thesis project at his Stockholm college.

While this does happen to some flags on Earth, I am not sure about the chemical process involved and if that would occur in a lunar environment," Platoff tells Space.com.

The container will be transferred to a reentry capsule that is due to return to Earth in the deserts of China's Inner Mongolia region about June 25. The small flag, which the agency said was made ...