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Mercury is about 57,500,000 kilometers (36,000,000 miles (36 million miles)) from the Sun, Earth is about 152,000,000 (93,000,000 miles (93 million miles)) - a little less than 3x farther away. Since it takes about 9 minutes for light to get to Earth from the Sun, it stands to reason it would take about 3 minutes to get to Mercury from the Sun.
Light to Earth
152,000,000,km/300,000km/s ~ 506 secs, 506secs x 1 min/60 secs ~ 8.5 mins
(93,000,000 miles/ 186,292 miles per second ~ 499 seconds, 499 seconds x 1 min/60 seconds ~ 8.3 mins, )
Light to Mercury
57,500,000 kilometers/300,000km/sec ~ 192 sec, 192 sec x 1 min/60 secs ~3.2 mins
(36,000,000 miles/186,292miles/sec ~ 193 sec, 193 sec x 1 min/60 secs ~ 3.2 mins)
Vada Boyer
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How long does light from the sun take to reach mercury?
Mercury's average distance from the sun is 36 million miles (58 million km).The time for light to cover that distance is about 193 seconds.
How long does it take mercury to orbit the planet?
Do you mean how long does it take Mercury to orbit the sun ? 87.969 days
How long does it take in days for the planet Mercury to orbit the Sun?
Mercury's orbit of the sun takes 87.969 days.
How long does it take Mercury to orbit around Earth?
Mercury orbits the sun not the Earth
How long would it take for mercury to revolve around the sun?
it takes mercury 88 earth days to revolve around the sun
How long would it take to get to mercury if traveling at a speed of 100000 km per hr?
That would depend on where Earth and Mercury were on their particular orbits of the Sun. Assuming they were at their closest conjunction as Mercury is 57.91 million km from the Sun and Earth is 149.6 million km from the Sun, the distance between them will be 91.69 km. So at a speed of 1 million km/hour it would take you 91.69 hours to reach Mercury From Earth.
How long does it take for Mercury the planet rotate around the sun?
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.
How long does mercury take to travel the sun?
About 88 Earth days.
How long does Mercury take to rorate around the sun?
88 days
How long does it take for heat of the Sun fusion reactions to reach the sun's surface?
From the surface of the sun the heat radiations take 8 minutes to reach the surface of hte earth.
How long will the light from the sun take to reach Jupiter?
It will take no time at all
How hot does it get on the side of Mercury closet to the sun?
At the equator, the surface temperature on Mercury (facing the sun) can reach 700K (430'C).
