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Uncommon card · Science
Mariner 2, an Uncommon card
Mariner 2, an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Mariner 2 quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mariner 2 card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of the Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft are sometimes known as the Mariner R missions.
Answer
missions. The missions of the Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft are sometimes known as the Mariner R missions. From the Mariner 2 article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Edward Aveling. Edward Aveling 92 · Child care 87 · History of spaceflight 83 · Mariner 2 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Child care. Child care 52,000 · Mariner 2 29,000 · Alice Hamilton 21,000 · Scientific diving 3,200 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.
- The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1.
- The missions of the Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft are sometimes known as the Mariner R missions.
- Original plans called for the probes to be launched on the Atlas-Centaur, but serious developmental problems with that vehicle forced a switch to the much smaller Agena B second stage.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mariner 2 article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Mariner 2
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mariner 2 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eric Long/Smithsonian, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
