DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 23, 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 Perseverance rover measures 3 m (length / span), which is about 1.5× smaller than the reference, a family sedan at 4.6 m.
Perseverance is about the length of a small car.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Perseverance rover when it sits beside a family sedan — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 109× as big as the reference, Earth at 12,742 km.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside Earth — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the International Space Station measures 109 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to compress the International Space Station when it sits beside a Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: 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.
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