How high could on different planets?
Gravity is what keeps your feet firmly planted on the ground that's why the average person can only jump about 1.5 feet straight up. But if we had to live on another planet, Venus or Saturn let's find out what difficulties we'd have to endure there.
Mercury
We'll try mercury, first as its closest to the sun. The gravity on this planet is less than half that on earth so you'll be able to jump about 4 feet high. That is if you can stand the temperatures on the sunny side, the heat reaches 800 degrees to be there is like standing neck-deep in dark red lava on the slopes of a volcano and also the scorching air will quickly chill to -280 degrees you'll also have to be patient since one day on Mercury lasts 176 earth days.
Venus
Well hopping from mercury’s inhospitable place to even less welcoming venues. You'd be able to see the earth from here if not for the whirling mass of clouds above they create a monstrous greenhouse effect as well as immense atmospheric pressure if you were to jump here, you'd make it just shy of 1.7 feet high. Because the mass and size of Earth and Venus are almost similar with Venus being a little smaller beside the constant temperature of a blazing furnace. Rain here wouldn't bring relief the clouds made of sulfuric acid.
Moon
Skipping our home planet, we go straight for its moon. Gravity here is less than a fifth of that on earth so if you jump, you'll rise almost 9 feet in the air and won't touch the ground again for several seconds. It's hard to believe this desolate piece of space rock makes tides on Earth habit and if you stay on the moon long enough as in a couple of million years, you'll see how much further it's gone from our home planet.
Mars
Next destination is Mars the red planet here a vertical jump will take you about four feet in the air. Mars have an atmosphere but it's much thinner than on earth if you stay here until evening, you'll be able to marvel at a beautiful blue sunset and you can probably see a mountain from here that's Olympus Mons the tallest mountain in the solar system. It's almost three times taller than Everest and it's also a volcano by the way leaping.
Phobos
From mars to Phobos one of the two moons of mars. Plant your feet firmly and don't be attempted to jump gravity here is so weak that you won't be able to return. Phobos is small compared to other moons in the solar system. No larger than a big asteroid it's almost a hundred times closer to its planet than our moon to earth. Eventually it's doomed to be pulled critically close to mars and shatter. Scientists believe mars can obtain its own rings then much like Saturn.
Ceres
Now we're going to a weird object it's called Ceres and it's the largest asteroid in the solar system; so large it was later classified as a dwarf planet it's almost exactly halfway between Mars and Jupiter somewhere in the main asteroid belt. If you jump here, you'll be taken up almost 52 feet and then slowly fall back. Ceres is so massive that it accounts for a third of all mass in the asteroid belt.
Jupiter
Fast forward to the next waypoint Jupiter being a gas giant this planet has no solid surface. So, jumping here is irrelevant but if you must you could only hop about 6 inches high. Jupiter is more than 10 times larger than earth and 300 times as massive so its gravity is enormous. There's also a perpetual storm on its surface that's been there for at least four centuries although it's getting smaller with time at the moment our whole planet could fit into that storm.
Ganymede
Our next stop is Ganymede the largest of Jupiter's moons. It's solid so you can easily jump here and make it over 10 feet high this moon is larger than mercury but its mass is significantly lower which makes gravity rather weak. Ganymede is covered in thick ice and deep beneath that is a liquid metal core. This core is why Ganymede is the only moon to have a pretty strong magnetic field.
Saturn
Next, we go to Saturn the second gas-giant of the solar system. It's only slightly smaller than Jupiter able to fit nine and a half-moons in it but way less massive. If it had any hard surface to jump from, you'd be able to hop as high as 1.4 feet in the air. Almost as high as on our planet. Saturn is most famous for its rings which are particles of dust and ice left from impacts with different space objects. It spins so fast around its axis that it has flattened itself almost into an oblong shape. It also has 62 moons only 5 fewer than Jupiter.
Titan
Let's explore one of the Saturn’s moon right now. Hopping further and here we are on the largest moon of Saturn; Titan. Jumping here will take you just shy of 11 feet high. The atmosphere of this moon is most peculiar it's heavy and mostly consists of nitrogen making the surface appear hazy. It's also made almost entirely of ice but there's rock underneath and water is only thought to be deep below near the core and one amazing thing on Titan's outside cryovolcanoes. Volcanoes that spew ice instead of lava.
Uranus
Next on our path is Uranus another giant. Only this one is made of ice, in fact, it's mostly similar to Jupiter and Saturn but it has much more ice in its atmosphere and jumping here will take you up about 1.7 feet. Uranus is also the lowest minimum temperature of all planets in the system at -377 degrees. It's colder than liquid nitrogen so you'll freeze right where you stand cool really.
Neptune
Our route continues with Neptune the twin brother of Uranus. It's also an ice giant and although a bit smaller in size it's much more massive because of this mass the gravity here is also impressive. You'd only be able to jump about 1.3 feet. One year on Neptune takes almost 165 Earth years because it's 30 times further from the sun than we are in fact this is the last proved planet of the solar system but our hopping trip isn't finished yet.
Triton
We're arriving to Triton one of Neptune's moon. Gravity here is not extremely low so a single jump would take you a comfortable 19 feet up. Triton is the only moon that moves in a retrograde orbit that is against the movement of Neptune around its axis also has a unique surface feature called cantaloupe terrain for its similarity to a melon.
Pluto
Next is the dark and lonely Pluto formerly the ninth planet but now no more than a dwarf planet. Its gravity is somewhat lower than that of triton's and you could jump over 25 feet high here. Pluto is too small to be a fully-fledged planet. It's smaller than many moons including ours. Its atmosphere appears and disappears. At times when Pluto is closer to the sun the ice on its surface evaporates to become the atmosphere but as soon as it travels further the gas layer goes away so hold your breath.
Eris
Our final stop is Eris. It's a dwarf planet that travels in and out of the Kuiper belt. A second asteroid belt that's 20 times as wide as the one between Mars and Jupiter. Jumping on Eris's surface would take you up about 18 feet. This object was actually the reason why the term dwarf planet appeared in the first place. Astronomers wanted to call it the tenth planet of the solar system but then reconsidered as a dwarf planet. That’s all for today bye…
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