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Nov
Washington: Though NASA's InSight landed safely on the surface of Mars, but the spacecraft sits about 4 degrees tilted, the US space agency said.Early last week, InSight touched down on a lava plain named Elysium Planitia on the Red Planet. The vehicle sits tilted slightly in a shallow dust-and sand-filled impact crater known as a "hollow". But, InSight has been engineered to operate on a surface with an inclination up to 15 degrees, NASA said in a statement on Friday. "The science team had been hoping to land in a sandy area with few rocks since we chose the landing site, so…