DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 16, 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: 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: Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.7× as big as the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 1.9× as big as the reference, Mars at 6,779 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside Mars — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope measures 13.1 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a Tyrannosaurus rex at 12.3 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 Tyrannosaurus rex — 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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