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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. 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...
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 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.
One Mercury solar day (one full day-night cycle) equals 176 Earth days – just over two years on Mercury. Mercury's axis of rotation is tilted just 2 degrees with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun.
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 about 88 Earth days long. Mercury has the shortest year of any planet in the Solar System.
It takes 59 Earth days to make one day (or one full rotation) on Mercury. However, a year on Mercury goes by fast! Because it’s the closest planet to the Sun, it doesn’t take very long to go all the way around.
Each sidereal day on Mercury takes 58.65 Earth days; it takes Mercury 58.65 days (2/3’s of its year) to rotate around its axis once. One day on Mercury seems to last two Mercurian years (or 176 Earth days), i.e., sunrise to sunrise.
A Year On Mercury: To put it simply, Mercury has an orbital period of 88 days (87.969 to be exact), which means a single year is 88 Earth days – or the equivalent of about 0.241 Earth years.