How high can you jump on Earth? Find out how high you'd soar on the Moon, Jupiter, or a comet.
Jump height is inversely proportional to gravity. If you can vertical-jump 40 centimeters on Earth — which is roughly average for an adult — you'd jump about 2.4 meters on the Moon. On Jupiter, that same jump would barely reach 16 centimeters, and the atmospheric pressure would crush you before you left the ground.
On a small asteroid like Bennu, a standing jump would actually give you escape velocity. You'd simply float off into space and never come back. That's why NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission had to use a touch-and-go sample collection instead of landing properly. Even a tiny push would send the spacecraft drifting away.
The highest anyone has ever jumped on Earth is 1.82 meters by Javier Sotomayor (1993). On the Moon, that same vertical would be 11 meters. On Jupiter, it would be 72 centimeters — and you wouldn't land softly. The Moon's low gravity means you'd be airborne for about 4 seconds per jump.
If you jump 0.5m on Earth, you'd jump 3m on the Moon. Lower gravity means higher hang time.
Jupiter's gravity is 2.5x Earth's. Your legs can't overcome that much force. You'd barely lift off the ground.
On Earth: 1.6m (high jump record). On the Moon, the same effort gives ~10m — about the height of a house.