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LANDER
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Irregular inflected form: lander
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lander" is a kind of...):
ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)
Derivation:
land (reach or come to rest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in central Wyoming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Lander" is a part of...):
Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
Context examples:
These regions near the poles have been studied by NASA's Phoenix lander, which scraped up ice, and MRO, which has taken many images from space of meteor impacts that have excavated this ice.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
For instance: Opportunity, as a solar powered rover, would have to hunker down to save energy; the upcoming InSight lander's parameters would need to be adjusted for safe entry, descent and landing in November; and all the cameras on rovers and orbiters would need to deal with low visibility.
(Dust Storms Linked to Gas Escape from Mars Atmosphere, NASA)
The lander is expected to send images from its landing site, named Agilkia.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
They show that the lander survived its Dec. 25, 2003, touchdown enough to at least partially deploy its solar arrays.
('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)
The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander's 128th Martian day, or sol.
(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)
Composed of an orbiter and lander, Rosetta's objectives upon arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August are to study the celestial object up close in unprecedented detail, prepare for landing a probe on the comet's nucleus in November, and track its changes as it sweeps past the sun.
(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)
The landing signal was relayed to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, via NASA's two small experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, which launched on the same rocket as InSight and followed the lander to Mars.
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
Due to the small size of Beagle 2 (less than 7 feet, or 2 meters across for the deployed lander) it is right at the limit of detection of HiRISE, the highest-resolution camera orbiting Mars.
('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)
The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
