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MESSENGER, an Uncommon card
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
MESSENGER quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the MESSENGER card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
MESSENGER was ______ aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004.
Answer
launched. MESSENGER was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004. From the MESSENGER article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of water supply and sanitation. History of water supply and sanitation 87 · MESSENGER 84 · African wolf 80 · Lake Malawi 77 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.
- The name is an acronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and a reference to the messenger god Mercury from Roman mythology.
- MESSENGER was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004.
- Its path involved a complex series of flybys – the spacecraft flew by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury itself three times, allowing it to decelerate relative to Mercury using minimal fuel.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The MESSENGER article was read about 77,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get MESSENGER
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, MESSENGER (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA / JHU/APL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
