Comparative Gravities of The Earth, Sun, Moon, and Planets
The table below shows comparative gravitational accelerations at the surface of the Sun, the Earth's moon, each of the planets in the Solar System and their major moons, Pluto, and Eris. The "surface" is taken to mean the cloud tops of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). For the Sun, the surface is taken to mean the photosphere. The values in the table have not been de-rated for the inertia effect of planet rotation (and cloud-top wind speeds for the gas giants) and therefore, generally speaking, are similar to the actual gravity that would be experienced near the poles.
| Body | Multiple of Earth gravity |
m/s2 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | 27.90 | 274.1 |
| Mercury | 0.3770 | 3.703 |
| Venus | 0.9032 | 8.872 |
| Earth | 1 | 9.8067 |
| Moon | 0.1655 | 1.625 |
| Mars | 0.3895 | 3.728 |
| Jupiter | 2.640 | 25.93 |
| Io | 0.182 | 1.789 |
| Europa | 0.134 | 1.314 |
| Ganymede | 0.145 | 1.426 |
| Callisto | 0.126 | 1.24 |
| Saturn | 1.139 | 11.19 |
| Titan | 0.138 | 1.3455 |
| Uranus | 0.917 | 9.01 |
| Titania | 0.039 | 0.379 |
| Oberon | 0.035 | 0.347 |
| Neptune | 1.148 | 11.28 |
| Triton | 0.079 | 0.779 |
| Pluto | 0.0621 | 0.610 |
| Eris | 0.0814 (approx.) | 0.8 (approx.) |
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