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Can we create artificial Earth’s gravity on every planet?

Giuseppe Frisella
1 min readSep 16, 2023

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Generating artificial gravity, even on the surface of other planets, is definitely possible, but with a few caveats.

The difficult thing would be to artificially cancel out the gravity of a planet more massive than the earth.

It would require either an object with its own appreciable gravitational field, which is currently impossible to construct, or a continuously free-falling habitat, an idea that is already more feasible but equally problematic.

Living on a planet with less gravity than the earth’s is, on the other hand, absolutely possible. It would be sufficient to be inside a rotating cabin.

In this way, the resulting centrifugal force and the planet’s gravitational acceleration would vectorially add up to emulate a gravitational acceleration equal to that of the Earth.

That gravitational force would be felt only on the habitacle’s internal “pavement”, that would have to be tilted accordingly.

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Giuseppe Frisella
Giuseppe Frisella

Written by Giuseppe Frisella

I'm a curious person and I'm on Medium mainly to read and share thoughts and knowledge. I love science, especially physics and evolutionary biology.

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