DAILY NO. 5 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 5, 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 Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 1393× as big as the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Saturn V rocket measures 110.6 m (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Saturn V stood taller than the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Saturn V rocket when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Starship launch stack measures 121 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m.
The complete Starship launch stack is about 121 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Starship launch stack when it sits beside a Saturn V rocket — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Perseverance rover measures 3 m (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 m.
Perseverance is about the length of a small car.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Perseverance rover when it sits beside an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Jupiter measures 139,820 km (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, Saturn at 116,460 km.
Jupiter is almost eleven times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to compress Jupiter when it sits beside Saturn — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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