Physics
What Are Gravity Wells?
How do we escape the gravitational pull of a planet?
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5 min readMay 2, 2022
You might have heard of gravity wells from your favorite sci-fi movie. Maybe you heard it in your old physics class, but what exactly is a gravity well? At the time, you might have thought to yourself “certainly, it is not an actual cylindrical-shaped hole that drops into the abyss. Is a gravity…
