Astronaut looking at Martian colony by Dotted Yeti

Picture of the Day 24/1/2020 - Astronaut looking at a radial Martian colony by Dotted Yeti.

Small garden under a geodesic dome on Mars

Picture of the Day 20/1/2020 - small patch of grass with a pond and a cabin under geodesic dome on Mars from Instagram profile @blender_every_weekday.

Speculative internal structure of SpaceX redesigned Starship by William Falconer-Beach

William Falconer-Beach, a young graphic designer from New Zealand, has made some renders with possible internal structure of SpaceX's redesigned Starship. More of his Starship renders here.

Full stack Starship Super Heavy:

More speculative internal layouts of Starship by SpaceX fans:

• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Lunar Starship by Rocket Posters
• SpaceX's Starship interior concept for 100 passengers by Rick Kiessig & Michel Lamontagne
• SpaceX's Starship interior concept by Jim Murphy
• Speculative internal layout of SpaceX's Starship by Michel Lamontagne
• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Starship by Julian Schindler
• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Big Falcon Ship by Nick Oberg

Large human base on Mars by Manchu (Philippe Bouchet)

Picture of the Day 12/1/2020 - lander landing at a large human base on Mars featuring several residential domes & greenhouses, solar array, tall communications antenna, light reconnaissance plane and enclosed landing pad. It's a concept art by French sci-fi artist Manchu (Philippe Bouchet) from French chapter of The Mars Society (Association Planète Mars).

Closeup of the central part of the base:

Poster of SpaceX Starship entering Mars' atmosphere by Gravitation Innovation

Poster of SpaceX's Starship entering Mars's atmosphere to slow down before landing by Gravitation Innovation.

Painting of Elon Musk on Mars by Conor Walton

Oil painting with Elon Musk, the CEO & lead designer of SpaceX, on Mars by Irish painter Conor Walton. More of his art here.

SpaceX Starship orbiting Earth by Gravitation Innovation

Picture of the Day 3/1/2020 - Impressive render with the new design of SpaceX's Starship orbiting Earth by Gravitation Innovation. More to come.

Tesla Cybertruck at Cybunker on Mars by Lars Büro

Inspired by the recently unveiled Tesla Cybertruck, the New York-based design company Lars Büro has imagined a Cybunker, "a modular architecture that can be deployed as a hi-tech depot or an off-grid residence. Made with a rigid steel monocoque structure, the aerodynamic module is able to withstand the toughest environmental conditions." ... including Mars:

Martian colonies in season 4 of The Expanse

Although Mars is one of the three competing powers in universe of The Expanse TV series (a political sci-fi detective set a few centuries in the future where humans have colonized the entire Solar system) only a few scenes were actually set on Mars in first three seasons of the series. That changes in season 4 where the life on Mars at last gets proper depiction.

In The Expanse Mars, governed by Martian Congressional Republic, is a militaristic and technologically advanced society of over nine billion inhabitants. It is the major competitor of Earth & Luna, governed by United Nations. Earth, dragged down by overpopulation and climate change, envies Mars because of its society's high mobilization towards the shared goal of terraforming Mars. But in season 4 that shared goal and order of the Martian society is starting to erode as the new habitable planets beyond the rings are discovered (without the costly need of being terraformed as Mars does). As the interplanetary military tension is over veterans find themselves needless in the peace time society; crime and corruption is rising, and some even manage to sell older military tech to Belter pirate gangs.

Here is a collection with HD images from the Martian scenes in season 4 of The Expanse (open link in new tab to view in full resolution):

Exterior and interior of a shipyard for Martian fleet:

Martian school kids training for exam:

Astronauts returning to Mars colony by Ferdinand Ladera

Picture of the Day 13/12/2019 - exploration team returning to human colony on Mars by Filipino fantasy artist Ferdinand Ladera; illustration for The Expanse role-playing board game.