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You probably know that a year is 365 days here on Earth. But did you know that on Mercury you’d have a birthday every 88 days? Read this article to find out how long it takes all the planets in our solar system to make a trip around the Sun.
Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has a year only 88 Earth days long. Credit: NASA. Mercury spins on its axis very slowly and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days....
A year on Mercury is about 88 Earth days long. Mercury has the shortest year of any planet in the Solar System.
Unsurprisingly the the length of each planet’s year correlates with its distance from the Sun as seen in the graph above. The precise amount of time in Earth days it takes for each planet to complete its orbit can be seen below. Mercury: 87.97 days (0.2 years) Venus : 224.70 days (0.6 years) Earth: 365.26 days(1 year) Mars: 686.98 days(1.9 years)
Mercury. Day length = 58.67 Earth days (1408 hours) Year length = 88 Earth days (0.2 Earth years) 2. Venus. Day length = 243 Earth days (5832 hours) Year length = About 225 Earth days (0.6...
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...
A year on Mercury is only 88 days long, or just over two months of Earth time. Venus is the second closest planet to the sun and thus has the second shortest year. It takes Venus 225 days to orbit the sun, which isn’t too much shorter than Earth’s 365 days.