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Epic card · Science
Solar eclipse, an Epic card
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 580,000
Ranked #918 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Solar eclipse quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Solar eclipse card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is ______.
Answer
obscured. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. From the Solar eclipse article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bucharest. Bucharest 91 · Golden ratio 88 · Solar eclipse 85 · Durian 81 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mohamed Atta. Mohamed Atta 1,200,000 · Apollo 1 950,000 · Solar eclipse 580,000 · Atmosphere of Earth 440,000 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.
- Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit.
- In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon.
- In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Solar eclipse article was read about 580,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Solar eclipse
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- BucharestEpic · Society · ATK 91 DEF 88
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Solar eclipse (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
