DAILY NO. 36 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five space Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 27, 2026 puzzle ran from the Perseverance rover at 3 m to the Moon at 3,474.8 km — 6 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: 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: Hubble Space Telescope — 13.1 m. 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: 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: The Moon — 3,474.8 km. The Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside Brazil — 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 almost exactly the same size as the reference, an American football field at 109.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the International Space Station when it sits beside an American football field — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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