What is the percentage of gravity on Saturn compared to earth's?

Answer 1

Although it is impossible to apply to "weights" because the solid surface of Saturn is deep inside its total mass, the gravitic attraction by Saturn's mass is 95 times as great as Earth's. At the greater distance to the tops of its clouds, the gravity would be comparable to Earth's (within 10%), but this would only affect the thrust required by spacecraft. Any occupants would be weightless while in orbit.

Answer 2

13.9% greater.

Comment:

Unfortunately various sources give different answers, partly depending on

the exact definition of "surface gravity". The value I prefer (for what it's worth) is "about 7% greater".

Answer 3

It's true that gravity behaves the same everywhere, and that its strength can be

calculated using the same formula everywhere. But its strength is not the same

on Saturn as it is on Earth. In fact, it's about 11% greater on Saturn.

This means that if you are the type of person who weighs 200 pounds on Earth,

and if it were somehow possible to drag that mass to the surface of Saturn ...

along with either a bathroom scale or some other such apparatus with which to

make the measurement ... you would weigh about 222 pounds on Saturn.

Answer 4

The only problem here is that a planet's gravitational field depends on how far

you are from its center. On Earth, that's easy to define, because the Earth has

a solid surface. That's where most of us spend most of our time, and so we

understand the acceleration of Earth's gravity to be the number we measure

when we're on the solid surface.

Saturn is a 'gas giant' and has no solid surface. So where should we stand in

order to compare its 'gravity' to Earth's ?

What the planetary scientists do, in order to talk about the 'size' and 'gravity'

of the gas giant planets, is: They consider dangling a barometer down into

the gas, from the wispiest thinnest gas out in space near the planet, down

and down as it get thicker and heavier. And when the barometer gets down

to the depth where the pressure of the gas is the same as the sea-level pressure

of Earth's atmosphere, they call that the 'surface', for purposes of talking about

the planet's 'size' and gravitational acceleration.

When you do that for Saturn, you find that its diameter is 9.44 times as long as Earth's diameter.

The acceleration of gravity at that depth in Saturn's 'atmosphere' has been

measured as 10.58 meters/second2 . . . about 8% greaterthan on Earth.

Answer 5

The gravity of Saturn is about 1.065 g whereas the gravity on Earth is 0.99732 g

So Saturn has about 1.068 more gravity.

Answer 6

The acceleration due to gravity, and therefore the weight of objects located there,

is 13.91 percent greater on the 'surface' of Saturn than on the Earth's surface.