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Discovery and exploration of the Solar System, a Common card
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System is observation, visitation, and increase in knowledge and understanding of Earth's "cosmic neighborhood".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Ranked #1,646 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Discovery and exploration of the Solar System card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Ancient astronomers were able to make geometric ______ with various instruments.
Answer
observations. Ancient astronomers were able to make geometric observations with various instruments. From the Discovery and exploration of the Solar System article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Palaeography. Palaeography 86 · Discovery and exploration of the Solar System 81 · Gregor Mendel 77 · Zinc chloride 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Zinc chloride. Zinc chloride 39,000 · Kernel 31,000 · Discovery and exploration of the Solar System 13,000 · United States Consumer Product Safety Commission 8,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- This includes the Sun, Earth and the Moon, the major planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, their satellites, as well as smaller bodies including comets, asteroids, and dust.
- In ancient and medieval times, only objects visible to the naked eye, the Sun, the Moon, the five classical planets, and comets, along with phenomena now known to take place in Earth's atmosphere, like meteors and aurorae, were known.
- Ancient astronomers were able to make geometric observations with various instruments.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Discovery and exploration of the Solar System article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
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, Discovery and exploration of the Solar System (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bowen, Emanuel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
