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# lander

noun (a lander, landers)

«lander» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A lander is a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet, moon, comet or asteroid. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#m2)

### 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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x2)
- The Philae lander bounced on the comet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x3)
- The Mars lander measured quakes inside the planet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x4)
- We built a paper lander to protect an egg when dropped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/#x5)
- The Apollo lunar lander carried two astronauts to the surface. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lander» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lander/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lander» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lander.html) on Mova free.