QUESTION: What actually Creates the Field of gravity on Earth or Mars?Is it something to do with thier cores?Or is it Something else? ANSWER from Bruce Jakosky on July 10, 2000: Every object in the universe attracts every other object through a force known as gravity. The more massive the object, the stronger the force. A planet such as the Earth or Mars has a lot of mass concentrated in one place, so it attracts other objects relatively strongly. In addition, these planets do not have a perfectly uniform distribution of mass throughout their interior, so the pull of gravity is not perfectly uniform either. Some areas, such as the Tharsis bulge on Mars, have extra mass so they attract nearby objects, such as an orbiting spacecraft, more strongly. We can measure the variations in the gravity field by tracking an orbiting or flyby spacecraft, and we can learn something from this about the interior structure of the planet.