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# lander

«lander» in Mova's school dictionary: **a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lander, landers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lander is a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet, moon, comet or asteroid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#m1)

2) (rare) A lander is someone who lands, or a person from a particular land (as in «Highlander»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and space lessons landers such as the Apollo Lunar Module, Viking on Mars, Philae on a comet and Chandrayaan-3's Vikram on the Moon are compared with orbiters (which circle) and rovers (which drive around). Phrases: «Mars lander», «lunar lander», «the lander touched down».

### examples

- The lander touched down safely on the Moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x1)
- A lander stays where it lands, but a rover can drive around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x2)
- The Philae lander bounced on the comet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x3)
- The Mars lander measured quakes inside the planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x4)
- We built a paper lander to protect an egg when dropped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x5)
- The Apollo lunar lander carried two astronauts to the surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x6)

### note

Countable. From the verb «land». Compare: orbiter (goes around), lander (lands), rover (moves on the surface), probe (any uncrewed spacecraft). In egg-drop maths/science tasks, a good lander slows the fall and spreads the impact.

### In the corpora

- [Soviet Venera landers in the 1970s and 1980s survived only about an hour or two before the heat and pressure destroyed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/4-venus/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lander» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.