The planetary gravitational pull in a fun online game for astronomy.

"Planet Gravity Escape" is a free online knowledge level game, about the gravitational pull of different size of planets. Move with arrow keys and avoid being dragged by the planetary gravity well. A small arcade game for desktop computers, laptops and tablets, which may be played in the web browser. The Astronomy Knowledge Board include 8 animated planets with different sizes and different gravity to play with. The game is part of the Interactive Astronomy Observatory educational tools.

Reach the landing platform at the end of the map, avoiding being caught by the planets' gravity pull. The space ship is controlled with arrow keys for up, down, left and right. Press "s" button to stop and "space" to activate the thrusters, which will increase the ship's speed for 1 second. This is just enough to escape from heavy gravity planets or to crush in the neighbour ones :) Every time the game will generate different planets to be avoided. Press the "crossed swords icon" to restart the game.