Mercury takes 59 Earth Days to complete one full rotation, So much time is over or gone on the earth?
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Mercury spins slowly on its axis and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days. But when Mercury is moving fastest in its elliptical orbit around the Sun (and it is closest to the Sun), each rotation is not accompanied by sunrise and sunset like it is on most other planets.
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- planet's day is the time it takes the planet to rotate or spin once on its axis. Mercury rotates very slowly compared to Earth so a day on Mercury is much longer than a day on Earth. A day on Mercury is 58.646 Earth days or 1407.5 hours long while a day on Earth is 23.934 hours long.
- It takes Mercury about 88 Earth days to orbit the sun, while Earth takes 365 days. It takes about 176 Earth days for Mercury to rotate on its axis (from sunrise to sunrise), while Earth takes only 24 hours. On Mercury, it is daytime for one year, and night for one year.
- To break it down, Mercury takes roughly 88 Earth days to complete a single orbit around the Sun. Between this rapid orbital period and its slow rotational period, a single year on Mercury is actually shorter than a single day!
- Due to the tenuous atmosphere, Mercury really has no weather to speak of other than wild fluctuations in temperature. ... Therefore Mercury's very long solar day, close proximity to the Sun and very thin atmosphere, all combine to produce the largest diurnal temperature spread in our solar system.
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Mercury spins slowly on its axis and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days. But when Mercury is moving fastest in its elliptical orbit around the Sun (and it is closest to the Sun), each rotation is not accompanied by sunrise and sunset like it is on most other planets.
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