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Yes but only just.

Gravity is a relationship between the mass of a planet and the distance from the centre.

In simplistic terms G=M/R Where G = gravity, M = mass and R = radius. It's a bit more complicated than that - but is a good approximation.

For example Saturn is about 9 times larger than the Earth but the gravity is only just above that of the Earth.

However, if you drilled down into the Earth, the closer you got to the centre the greater the gravity would be.

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