• untrainedtribble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah they picked up the same reading on Venus which was later disproved. The headline is also somewhat misleading in that this planet is 9 times larger than earth (not sure what it’s mass is) so it wouldn’t accommodate humans but still it would be incredible to reconfirm results

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      1 year ago

      A planet 9 times the size of earth could still potentially host human life, we’d need to live high up in the sky so the gravity would be lower, but it’s possible

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          1 year ago

          Gravity becomes lower at higher altitudes, or what do you mean?

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            The bigger aplanet, the further away its surface from its center of mass, which decreases gravity. A planet’s surface gravity is mostly affected by its mass and density. This is why Saturn, despite being much bigger than Earth, still have roughly the same surface garvity.