• Question: due to the force on mars, how much heaver would a average size horse weigh

    Asked by horse_life_tgs to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Mars is actually much smaller than Earth, so any object would be lighter on Mars! Martian gravity is around two-fifths as strong as Earth gravity (that’s about 40%), so an average horse would weigh just under half as much on Mars as it would on Earth!

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      agree with Steven – it would be much lighter

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Much lighter! Gravity is only about 3.7 meters/s/s on Mars, where it’s 9.6 m/s/s on Earth! I don’t know if you’d be able to lift the horse, but the horse would probably look a lot more lightfooted on Mars than on Earth.

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