DAILY NO. 1 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 1, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: the Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn measures 116,460 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Jupiter at 139,820 km.
Saturn is more than nine times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Saturn when it sits beside Jupiter — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope measures 13.1 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Stegosaurus at 9 m.
Hubble is roughly the size of a school bus, which is exactly what the Shuttle’s cargo bay was built to hold.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Hubble Space Telescope when it sits beside a Stegosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Space Shuttle orbiter measures 37.3 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an Argentinosaurus at 33 m.
The orbiter alone is about as long as a short-haul airliner — the launch stack was far taller.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Space Shuttle orbiter when it sits beside an Argentinosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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