Take off from Mars by Pat Rawlings

Picture of the Day 25/4/15 - Spaceship taking off from Mars (1990) by space illustrator Pat Rawlings. His description about this drawing you can read here.

Mars greenhouse by Robert Murray

Picture of the Day 18/4/15 - Mars greenhouse by Robert Murray / The Mars Society.

View from Mars orbit by Ludovic Celle

Picture of the Day 14/4/15 - View from the window of spaceship in Mars orbit by French graphic artist Ludovic Celle.
More of his Mars art here.

Terraforming Mars by William Black

The gradual terraformation of Mars as it would be seen from space (by William Black). More of his space concept art here.

Space elevator from Mars by Peter Elson

Picture of the Day 28/3/15 - Space elevator from Mars by classical space illustrator Peter Elson. More of his paintings here.

Mars explorer by Erik van Helvoirt

Picture of the Day 21/3/15 - Mars exploration rover by Erik van Helvoirt from Netherlands. More of his concept art here.

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Mars base by Walter Myers

Picture of the Day 9/3/15 - Mars outpost habitat near Martian mesa by sci-fi artist Walter Myers. Watch more of his art here.

Why we should go to Mars, a video interview with Robert Zubrin

4 part video interview with Robert Zubrin, the president of The Mars Society, around the main subject - Why we should go to Mars? The interview was done by moonandback.com in 2012. Zubrin's and The Mars Society's efforts towards the manned mission to Mars was depicted in details in The Mars Underground documentary.

1. part - about Zubrin's career in space and the path that led to the founding of the Mars Society.

Mars explorer by Dmitry Kolomeets

Picture of the Day 6/3/15 - Mars exploration rover (2014) by freelance digital artist Dmitry Kolomeets (Dimk). More of his art here.

My LEGO Mars colony #2

When I finished my 1st LEGO Mars base back in April, 2014 (inspired from GRusso's idea for a LEGO Mars base) my boys were telling it's too small :) So now I pulled oneself together to build a bigger one - one which you could call even a small "colony" not only a "base". Part of the colony (the living quarters and some of the maintenance facilities) is hidden underground a mountain for better protection from radioactivity. Click to view in full resolution: