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Uncommon card · Science
Dione, an Uncommon card
Dione is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm3, Dione is composed of an icy mantle and crust overlying a silicate rocky core, with rock and water ice roughly equal in mass.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 136 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Dione quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dione card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Dione was first imaged up-close by the ______ 1 space probe in 1980.
Answer
Voyager. Dione was first imaged up-close by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1980. From the Dione article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The moon was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in ____ and is named after the Titaness Dione in Greek mythology.
Answer
1680s. The moon was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684 and is named after the Titaness Dione in Greek mythology. From the Dione article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Excise. Excise 76 · Halbach array 73 · Dione 70 · Gabbro 65 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its trailing hemisphere is marked by large cliffs and scarps called chasmata, the trailing hemisphere is also significantly darker compared to the leading hemisphere.
- The moon was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684 and is named after the Titaness Dione in Greek mythology.
- Dione was first imaged up-close by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1980.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dione article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Dione
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dione (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
