The Moon’s gravity at its surface is about 1.62 meters per second squared, which is roughly one-sixth (about 16.5%) as strong as Earth’s gravity.

Basic numbers

  • Average surface gravity on the Moon: 1.62 m/s².
  • Average surface gravity on Earth: about 9.8 m/s².
  • So, you would weigh only about 16–17% of your Earth weight on the lunar surface.

What that feels like

  • A person who weighs 60 kg on Earth would “feel” like about 10 kg on the Moon, making walking and jumping much easier and more bouncy.
  • Astronauts in Apollo mission footage appear to move in slow, high hops because the weaker gravity accelerates them downward much less strongly than on Earth.

Why it is weaker

  • Gravity depends mainly on mass and distance from the center; the Moon has only about 1/81 of Earth’s mass and a smaller radius, so its surface gravity is much lower.
  • The Moon’s mean density is also lower than Earth’s (about 3346 kg/m³ versus about 5515 kg/m³ for Earth), which further reduces its surface gravitational pull.

Small variations across the Moon

  • The Moon’s gravity is not perfectly uniform: it varies by around 0.025 m/s² across the surface (about 1.6% of its average gravity).
  • These variations come from dense underground structures called mascons (mass concentrations), often linked to large impact basins filled with dense basaltic lava.

TL;DR: The answer to “how strong is the Moon’s gravity” is: about 1.62 m/s², or roughly one-sixth of Earth’s, so everything weighs only about 16–17% of its Earth weight there.

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