DAILY NO. 24 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 15, 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 15, 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 3: a Space Shuttle orbiter is about 1.9× smaller than a Boeing 747.
Answer: Apollo Lunar Module — 6.9 m. The Apollo Lunar Module measures 6.9 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an adult giraffe at 5.2 m.
It stood about as tall as a two-storey house, and only the top half ever came back.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Apollo Lunar Module when it sits beside an adult giraffe — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Perseverance Rover — 3 m. The Perseverance rover measures 3 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a concert grand piano at 2.7 m.
Perseverance is about the length of a small car.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Perseverance rover when it sits beside a concert grand piano — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Space Shuttle Orbiter — 37.3 m. A Space Shuttle orbiter measures 37.3 m (length / span), which is about 1.9× smaller than the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
The orbiter alone is about as long as a short-haul airliner — the launch stack was far taller.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a Space Shuttle orbiter when it sits beside a Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: Mars — 6,779 km. Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.6× as big as the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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