It does both. It orbits the sun and rotates on its axis.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun thus Mercury has the shortest orbit duration. It takes the planet Mercury 88 days to rotate around the sun.
Mercury and Jupiter.
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
Yes, Mercury does rotate about its own axis. However, its rotation is unique in that it is in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, meaning it rotates on its axis three times for every two orbits around the Sun.
Mercury takes about 88 Earth days to complete one orbit around the sun. Its orbit is the closest to the sun out of all the planets in our solar system.
around what? if its earth then it would rotate on its axis and and if ur talkin bout the revolution then if it is before earth (Venus, Mercury) then it wouldn't orbit around earth they would only orbit the sun and Venus would orbit mercury. and all of the planets after earth (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, others) they would orbit the sun and all the planets before them. but all planets rotate on their axis but it may take shorter or longer time to rotate once than how long it takes for earth to rotate on its axis once.
Mercury is a planet that has a very slow rotation on its axis, completing only about 1.5 rotations for every orbit around the Sun. This means that if you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear to move in the sky very slowly or even halt completely at times.
59 Earth days to rotate on its axis, 87.96 Earth days to orbit the sun.
It takes Mercury just over 58 days to rotate on it's axis and 88 days to orbit the Sun
Mercury takes 59 days to rotate, and 88 days to orbit the Sun.
Mercury. It actually takes longer to rotate on its axis (89 days) than it takes to orbit the sun.
It does not rotate in one day it does three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. One orbit takes 87.969 Earth days. Which is 126675.36 minuits or 2111.256 hours.