How much would you weigh on other planets?
Gravity's Wild Ride
How much would you weigh on other planets?
Step on a scale here on Earth, and you get a number. But what if you could pack that scale in a spaceship and try it somewhere else? Your weight would go wild — sometimes you'd feel light as a feather, sometimes you'd be crushed into the ground. Same body, same you, wildly different numbers. Let's take a tour.
First, a quick truth: weight and mass are different things. Mass is how much stuff you're made of — bones, water, all of you. That never changes. Weight is how hard a planet's gravity pulls on that stuff. Stronger pull? Higher number on the scale. Weaker pull? Lower number. Gravity does all the work.
