No , it takes 59 Earth days for Mercury for one rotation on its axis.
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.
Mercury's Solar Day is about 176 Earth days. That's the time taken for the Sun to complete one apparent journey around the sky. Mercury's Sidereal day (rotation period) about 58.6 Earth days. Earth's solar day is 24 hours. Earth's sidereal day is about 23 hours and 56 minutes.
Mercury does not spin as fast as Earth, so a Mercurian day (the time it takes a planet to rotate once) is 59 Earth days.
Because of the periods of Mercury's orbit and spin, a year (complete orbit around the sun) on Mercury is about 88 Earth days long, while a day (time for the Sun to appear in the same place in the sky) is twice that length, at about 176 Earth days long.
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
176 earth days
117 earth days is equal to 1 Venus day. (including night time.) Mercury's day is the equivalent to 176 earth days.
Mercury. One Mercurial day is 176 Terran (Earth) days.
No , it takes 59 Earth days for Mercury for one rotation on its axis.
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.
A mercury day (sidereal rotation period) is 58.646 earth days = 1407.5 hours.
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.
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.
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."
Year: 88 Earth days. Rotation period (sidereal day): 58.6 Earth days. Solar day: 176 Earth days.
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.