IT’S LIKE A game of Where’s Wally – but on rather a grander scale.

Terry W. Virts tweeted a picture from the Interational Space Station this week, where he’s been stationed since last November.

Can you spot the space walker in this picture? He's very small compared to the enormous starboard truss of the #ISS. pic.twitter.com/Td7pzc4Hmb
— Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) March 2, 2015

Terry W. Virts / Twitter

Here’s a closer look.

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In the above picture (eerily reminiscent of some of the scenes in last year’s Oscar-winner Gravity), he challenges his Twitter followers to find the space walker.

To give you some idea of the scale of the International Space Station, it measures at about 72.8m (239ft) in length, with a width of 108.5m (356ft) and a height of around 20m (66 ft). When it’s fully crewed – as it is right now – it holds six people.

So, can you spot our space walker?

.@AstroTerry Here's the space walker! #ISS is really big! Thanks @PC0101 for the labels. pic.twitter.com/c8UdYvr3zt
— ISS Research (@ISS_Research) March 2, 2015

ISS Research / Twitter

Phew. Puts it all into perspective a bit, eh?

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