Can you help out our new friends with some of that good geocaching energy?
Friendly folks from outer space were exploring Mars and came across the Mars Rover trackable. They were curious to learn more about geocaching and this led them to visit Earth and find some geocaches. Our friends are enjoying finding geocaches, but their spaceship is starting to run low on fuel. Luckily, the fuel their spaceship runs on is good energy, and one of the best ways to create good energy is geocaching! Let’s help our friends generate enough fuel to keep exploring.
The deciphered the intergalactic communication we received last week:
Hello, earthlings! We have come across a reference to “Geocaching.com” on a metal creature roving the planet Mars. It seems this ‘geocaching’ is an activity meant to further exploration and community. We would like to better understand this interesting human activity and we are traveling to Earth to learn more. We only hope we’ll have enough fuel in our spaceship to keep exploring!
Our friends from outer space are here and having a blast geocaching, but now they need our help. Their spaceship is running out of fuel, which they need in order to continue exploring other planets and galaxies. Luckily for us, we’re able to help them by doing what we do best: geocaching! The fuel their spaceship runs on is positive energy and what better way is there to build positive energy than getting together with friends and finding geocaches?
The Cosmic Quest is from July 22 through September 1 as we help our friends fuel their spaceship. During Cosmic Quest, different geocaching activities will generate different amounts of fuel. If we reach 15 million units of fuel, the spaceship will be all set to launch our friends to their next cosmic destination.
During Cosmic Quest we will use the leaderboard to track the community’s progress toward this goal. On the leaderboard, players will be able to see how many units of fuel the global community has generated, available campaign souvenirs, and information about how many units of fuel different geocaching actions generate.
See the table below for information about how many units of fuel different geocaching actions generate:
Activated a trackable 1
Attended an Event 3
Received a Favorite point on an owned geocache 2
Found an EarthCache 5
Found it* 1
*Logged a Found it on any other cache type, excluding Webcam Caches.
If we successfully fuel the spaceship, not only will we have the satisfaction of achieving a difficult goal as a community, all geocachers who took part will also earn a unique digital souvenir commemorating this visit from our intergalactic friends.
In addition to the Lift off souvenir that will be awarded if the goal is achieved, players will also have the chance to earn up to two souvenirs based on their individual contribution to the community goal. Players can earn the Super fuel cacher souvenir by generating 20 units of fuel and players can earn the Ultra fuel cacher souvenir by generating 100 units of fuel.