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Explorer 26, a Common card
Explorer 26 was a NASA satellite launched on 21 December 1964, as part of NASA's Explorer program.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 620
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Explorer 26 quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Explorer 26 card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its ______ mission was to study the Earth's magnetic field.
Answer
primary. Its primary mission was to study the Earth's magnetic field. From the Explorer 26 article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Explorer 26 was a NASA satellite launched on 21 December ____, as part of NASA's Explorer program.
Answer
1960s. Explorer 26 was a NASA satellite launched on 21 December 1964, as part of NASA's Explorer program. From the Explorer 26 article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bishop of Ross. Bishop of Ross 65 · Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens 60 · Explorer 26 57 · Solar eclipse of August 12, 1942 47 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 primary mission was to study the Earth's magnetic field.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Explorer 26 article was read about 620 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Explorer 26
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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The cards just above and just below Explorer 26 in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Luigi SpaventaCommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 40
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Explorer 26 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
