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#1 2007-04-20 16:47:56

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Re: Would Mars' gravity increase if...

Olympus Mons and the other giant volcanoes were stripped down to something more in line with mountains on earth with the excess being spread evenly across the rest of the planet?  Not really sure the relationship between mass and gravity, but if gravity is a field wouldn't the field be stronger with more mass closer to its point of origin in a spherical body instead of four irregular lumps sticking out of a roughly spherical body?

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#2 2007-04-23 07:07:07

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Re: Would Mars' gravity increase if...

No sorry.


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#3 2007-04-24 05:11:06

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Re: Would Mars' gravity increase if...

If you level every high point on Mars the gravity would be a very trivial amount stronger to everything on the surface.
Much less than 1/10000th of a percent though.

Only due to the fact that more material would be pulling on you from below on a totally flat mars.

A Mars with bumps has trivial gravity differential pulling you up or to the side, that is the only difference you would feel.

Mars gravity total would remain the same, but you would feel the weight of an atom or two more on a flat mars.


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