Weight On The Inner Planets
Earth has the highest surface gravity of all the rocky planets, and thus our weight on Earth is higher than on any of the other rocky worlds. Image credit: NASA
Earth has the highest surface gravity of the inner rocky worlds, and so your weight on Earth will be higher than on Mercury, Venus, or Mars. For example, if you weigh 60-kilograms on Earth, you would weigh 22.8- kilograms on Mars, equivalent to 50-pounds. Using the formula already provided, we can see how we get this number. With a mass of 60-kilograms and a surface gravity on Mars of 0.38, we can multiply these two numbers together to get 22.8-kilograms. On Mercury, a 60-kilogram person would weigh about the same as they would on Mars, while on Venus they would weigh 54.6-kilograms.
Weight On The Outer Planets
Each of the outer gas giants placed side by side. Image credit: NASA
The surface gravity of the gas giants is far higher than on the much smaller, rocky worlds, and so your weight on some of the gas giants would be quite high. For example, a 60-kilogram person on Jupiter would weigh over 140-kilograms on Jupiter, equivalent to 308-pounds. Again, we get this number by multiplying 60-kilograms by the surface gravity of Jupiter, which is 2.34. 60 multiplied by 2.34 is 140. Interestingly, your weight on Saturn and Uranus would actually be lower than it is on Earth, and that is due to the fact that they have lower densities than our world.
Weight Of 60-Kilogram Person On Each Planet
Planet
Weight Of 60-Kilogram Person (132-pounds)
Mercury
22.8 Kilograms (50.2 pounds)
Venus
54.6 Kilograms (120.3 pounds)
Earth
60 Kilograms (132 pounds)
Mars
22.8 Kilograms (50.2 pounds)
Jupiter
140 kilograms (308 pounds)
Saturn
55.8 Kilograms (123 pounds)
Uranus
55.2 Kilograms (121.7 pounds)
Neptune
67.2 Kilograms (148.2 pounds)
Aidan Remple July 31 2022 in Science