DAILY NO. 21 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 12, 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.
The October 12, 2026 puzzle ran from the Perseverance rover at 3 m to Jupiter at 139,820 km — 7 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 5: Earth is 3.7× as big as the Moon.
Answer: Jupiter — 139,820 km. 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.
Answer: International Space Station — 109 m. 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: Saturn — 116,460 km. 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: Perseverance Rover — 3 m. 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: Earth — 12,742 km. Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 3.7× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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