The InSight team at JPL have discovered that the spacecraft landed at a four degree angle in a large, sand-filled impact crater.
NASA’s Insight Lander survived the harrowing journey through outer space, and has settled nicely on the Martian surface. And while it’s charging its batteries, new details are emerging about where exactly InSight landed.
The InSight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California determined the spacecraft is actually sitting at a slightly tilted angle — roughly four degrees.
While that may sound like it could ben an issue down the road, scientists at NASA have thought ahead: InSight could actually operate normally with an inclination of up to 15 degrees, according to an update on NASA’s website .
