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Uncommon card · Science
Great Dark Spot, an Uncommon card
The Great Dark Spot was one of a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Great Dark Spot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Great Dark Spot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Like Jupiter's spot, the Great Dark Spots are ______ storms.
Answer
anticyclonic. Like Jupiter's spot, the Great Dark Spots are anticyclonic storms. From the Great Dark Spot article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe.
Answer
1980s. In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe. From the Great Dark Spot article on Wikipedia.
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.
- In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe.
- Like Jupiter's spot, the Great Dark Spots are anticyclonic storms.
- However, their interiors are relatively cloud-free, and unlike Jupiter's spot, which has lasted for hundreds of years, their lifetimes appear to be shorter, forming and dissipating once every few years or so.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great Dark Spot article was read about 78,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Great Dark Spot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jamescarolinewiki, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
