Patience: it's a BIG planet!! Meanwhile, here are some fascinating images of Mars or Mars-tech to keep you entertained (note: some are a bit speculative)...
Mars Biosuit at MIT, Dava Newman
Cliff-bot at MDRS
Clouds on Mars, really! (Opportunity rover)
Dust devil patterns (MRO)
Mars gullies (MRO)
More gullies...
And more gullies!
Mark Homnick, 4Frontiers CEO (credit: Michael Carroll)
Water on Mars (Mars Odyssey)
Author and Dewey Anderson test Mars analogue space suits, 2000
MOLA exaggerated image (credit: Paul Bourke)
Barchan dune on Mars (MRO)
Asteroid tugboat (credit: Dan Durda)
4Frontiers Gen2 Study Team, Atlanta
Theorized aerobraking concept: ballute
Dust storm on Mars!
Dust devil almost in 3-D! (MRO)
Ice in a crater (MRO)
Locations of known mid-latitude icy craters
Hohmann transfer orbits
4Frontiers Gen2 settlement study team, including the author: where's Brian?? (credit: Michael Carroll)
Victoria crater: can you find Opportunity? (MRO)
Nicholson Crater central peak, Medusae Fossae region (MRO)