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  2. Gravitation of the Moon - Wikipedia

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    The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Moon is approximately 1.625 m/s 2, about 16.6% that on Earth's surface or 0.166 ɡ. [1] Over the entire surface, the variation in gravitational acceleration is about 0.0253 m/s 2 (1.6% of the acceleration due to gravity).

  3. Moon - Wikipedia

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    The whole surface area of the Moon is about 38 million square kilometers, comparable to that of the Americas. [70] [71] The Moon's mass is 1 ⁄ 81 of Earth's, [72] being the second densest among the planetary moons, and having the second highest surface gravity, after Io, at 0.1654 g and an escape velocity of 2.38 km/s (8 600 km/h; 5 300 mph).

  4. Lunar Surface Gravimeter - Wikipedia

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    The Moon in a general sense exhibits very little seismic activity but particularly in the frequency bands suited to the study of gravitational waves, the moon exhibits a noise level orders of magnitude lower than found on Earth. [31] [32] [33] Areas on the Moon's surface that are in permanent shadow, such as at the lunar poles, are thermally ...

  5. Surface gravity - Wikipedia

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    The surface gravity, g, of an astronomical object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface at the equator, including the effects of rotation. The surface gravity may be thought of as the acceleration due to gravity experienced by a hypothetical test particle which is very close to the object's surface and which, in order not to disturb the system, has negligible mass.

  6. The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it was the first to mimic the moon's gravity.. The gravitational pull of the lunar surface is ...

  7. Io (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the highest density of any moon, the strongest surface gravity of any moon, and the lowest amount of water by atomic ratio of any known astronomical object in the Solar System.

  8. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    Alan Stern calls these satellite planets, although the term major moon is more common. The smallest natural satellite that is gravitationally rounded is Saturn I Mimas (radius 198.2 ± 0.4 km ). This is smaller than the largest natural satellite that is known not to be gravitationally rounded, Neptune VIII Proteus (radius 210 ± 7 km ).

  9. Firefly shares video of Blue Ghost’s nail-biting descent to ...

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    They include the Electrodynamic Dust Shield, or EDS, which is designed to sweep moon dust kicked up by the landing off of the spacecraft’s surface using electrical currents. Moon dust plagued ...