It takes the earth one year to make one rotation around the Sun!
Mercury is 58.646 earth days.
The moon rotates around our planet Earth. The rotation of the Earth refers to the spinning of our planet on its axis.
The third planet from the Sun is Earth. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to make one full rotation on its axis.
It takes 24 earth hours for it to make a full rotation.
Mercury rotates on its axis which similar to the earth. However, it takes 177 earth days for the small planet to make one rotation.
Mercury rotates on its axis which similar to the earth. However, it takes 177 earth days for the small planet to make one rotation.
Rotational period is the time it takes for a planet to make one full rotation around it's axis. Pluto takes about 153.3 hours to make one full rotation - or about 6.39 Earth days.
rotation (as opposed to orbiting, which describes the earth's movements around the sun)
24 hours
It takes 23 hours and 56 minutes for the earth to rotate.
Roughly 4 minutes less than 24 hours.
In general terms a day for a planet is the time taken for the planet to make on rotation on its own axis. Likewise a year for a planet is the time taken for the planet to make one orbit (rotation round) its primary star. Where a planet is tidally locked to its primary, the day length and the year length will be the same, such that the planet keeps one face permanently towards it primary (like the Moon does to the Earth).