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No, one Mercury day is equal to 58.6 Earth days

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The number of days years it takes mercury to rotate?

Mercury rotates in about 57.8 days and takes about 88 days to orbit the sun. 176 days on earth is 1 day on mercury


How long does it take to turn on mercury's axis?

176 earth days


How long are the days on Venus's and mercury?

117 earth days is equal to 1 Venus day. (including night time.) Mercury's day is the equivalent to 176 earth days.


Does it take Mercury or Earth longer to rotate on it's axis?

Mercury. One Mercurial day is 176 Terran (Earth) days.


It takes mercuary 176 earth days to turn on its axis?

No , it takes 59 Earth days for Mercury for one rotation on its axis.


Length of day mercury?

The length of day on Mercury is 58.646 Earth days. That's the rotation time, which is the sidereal day, but there's also the solar day. The solar day on Mercury is 176 Earth days.


How many hours on mercury in a day?

A mercury day (sidereal rotation period) is 58.646 earth days = 1407.5 hours.


What is mercury's rotation in hours and minutes?

Mercury has a very strange behaviour. Its spin:orbit ratio is 3:2 and this means that one day on mercury last two mercury-years! This is equivalent to 176 days on earth.


What is mercury's solar day about?

Mercury's solar day is about 176 Earth days. That's the time taken by the Sun to complete one apparent trip round the sky.


How long does mercury take for it to rotate on its axis?

It takes about 59 Earth days (58.66 days) for Mercury to make one rotation.However, its "day" is extended due to the extremely short orbital period of 88 Earth days : a "sunrise to sunrise" solar day is 176 Earth days long (2 Mercury years).This is the source of the saying "On Mercury, a day is twice as long as a year."


How long is a day and a year in mercury?

Year: 88 Earth days. Rotation period (sidereal day): 58.6 Earth days. Solar day: 176 Earth days.


What is mercury's length of day?

Mercury rotates once in about 58.6 Earth days. That's one definition of its day. However, Mercury's "solar day" lasts about 176 Earth days. That "day" is based on the position of the Sun in the sky. It depends on Mercury's orbital motion as well as its rotation on its axis.