Toppled Lunar Landers and More of February's Best Space Images

A solar eclipse as seen from Mars

Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI/Gizmodo

In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this amazing solar eclipse on Mars, showing the moon Phobos passing in front of the Sun. Hmm, those sunspots look awfully familiar…

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