A lander is a spacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body. Lander means the soft landing after that probe stays active while impact probe (as a rule, preceding the lander) just achieves the surface by hard landing with crush.For bodies with atmospheres, the landing occurs after atmospheric re-entry (or less precisely for other planets, atmospheric reentry) and the lander is first a re-entry vehicle.
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