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Common card · Science
IRAS, a Common card
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,800
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
IRAS quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the IRAS card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Launched on 25 January 1983, its ______ lasted ten months.
Answer
mission. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten months. From the IRAS article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Akgul Amanmuradova. Akgul Amanmuradova 76 · Jesús Huerta de Soto 71 · IRAS 64 · Vasudeva I 59 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.
- Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten months.
- The telescope was a joint project of the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
- Over 250,000 infrared sources were observed at 12, 25, 60, and 100 micrometer wavelengths.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The IRAS article was read about 8,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get IRAS
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 IRAS in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Jesús Huerta de SotoCommon · Science · ATK 71 DEF 51
- Akgul AmanmuradovaCommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 46
- CaranxCommon · Nature · ATK 65 DEF 57
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, IRAS (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/JPL-Caltech, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
