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Space gravity measurements have been mainly used to study the temporal mass variations at the Earth's surface and within the mantle. Nevertheless, mass variations due to the Earth's core might be observable in the gravity field variations as measured by Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow‐On satellites. Earth's core dynamical processes inferred from geomagnetic field measurements are characterized by large‐scale patterns associated with low spherical harmonic degrees of the potential fields. To study these processes, the use of large spatial and inter‐annual temporal filters is needed. To access gravity variations related to the Earth's core, surface effects must be corrected, including hydrological, oceanic or atmospheric loading (Newtonian attraction and mass redistribution). However, these corrections for surface processes add errors to the estimates of the residual gravity field variations enclosing deep Earth's signals. As our goal is to evaluate the possibility to detect signals of core origin embedded in the residual gravity field variations, a quantification of the uncertainty associated with gravity field products and geophysical models used to minimize the surface process signatures is necessary. Here, we estimate the dispersion for GRACE solutions as about 0.34 cm of equivalent water height (EWH) or 20% of the total signal. Uncertainty for hydrological models is as large as 0.89–2.10 cm of EWH. We provide estimates of Earth's core signals whose amplitudes are compared with GRACE gravity field residuals and uncertainties. The results presented here underline how challenging is to get new information about the dynamics of the Earth's core via high‐resolution, high‐accuracy gravity data. Plain Language Summary: The motions of the Earth's fluid core are deduced from ground and satellite measurements of the geomagnetic field variations. Because the long‐term variations of the Earth's gravity field might be correlated to the Earth's magnetic field, new information about the Earth's fluid core and its density changes could be accessed with gravimetry. The observation of the core processes must be done at very large spatial scales, in which case it is necessary to use gravity data from satellites. However, variations in the Earth's gravity field are also created by heterogeneous superficial sources such as ocean and atmospheric currents, variations in water storage, etc. To recover a signature of the Earth's fluid core, we need first to remove all other known effects of larger amplitudes from satellite observations of the gravity field. Our study compares models of gravity variations for different sources in order to estimate their uncertainty. Such uncertainties are discussed in view of the expected amplitudes of signals originated from the core. Key Points: Deep Earth's processes occur at large spatial and inter‐annual temporal scalesTime‐lapse gravity satellite data are compared with geophysical models at scales of interestLarge uncertainties on satellite data and geophysical models conceal the gravity signals originated from the Earth's core [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]