Your weight on Mars
Your mass does not change when you travel. Your weight does, because weight is a force and it depends on the local gravitational field.
Your weight there, in kilograms-force
26.610
- Your weight as a force
- 260.95
- Your weight in pounds-force
- 58.66
- Surface gravity
- 3.7279 m/s2
- Gravity relative to Earth
- 0.380 14
- How high that jump would take you
- 1.315
- Time for something to fall one metre
- 0.732 s
- Your weight on Earth for comparison
- 686.47
Show the working
- Your mass = 70
- How high you can jump on Earth = 0.5
- gm = 4.282837e13 = 42 828 400 000 000
- radius = 3.3895e6 = 3 389 500
- Surface gravity = 42 828 400 000 000 / 3 389 500^2 = 3.727 87
- Gravity relative to Earth = 3.727 87 / 9.80665 = 0.380 137
- Your weight as a force = 70 * 3.727 87 = 260.951
- Your weight there, in kilograms-force = 260.951 / 9.80665 = 26.6096
- Your weight in pounds-force = 260.951 / 4.4482216152605 = 58.664
- How high that jump would take you = 3.727 87 > 0 ? 0.5 * 9.80665 / 3.727 87 : 0 = 1.315 32
- Time for something to fall one metre = 3.727 87 > 0 ? sqrt(2 * 1 / 3.727 87) : 0 = 0.732 462
- Your weight on Earth for comparison = 70 * 9.80665 = 686.466
Values are shown to six significant figures here; the arithmetic itself runs on exact fractions and is only rounded where a number is printed.
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The formula
- surface gravity g = GM / r^2
- weight = mass x g
- jump height scales inversely with gravity for the same take-off energy
The gravitational constant G is the least precisely known fundamental constant, so results here are reported as rounded rather than exact.
Kilograms-force is what a bathroom scale reads. It is a force, not a mass, which is why the number changes and your mass does not.
Where the numbers come from
- GM and mean radius from planetary ephemeris and spacecraft tracking solutions.