A whole day on Mercury is 58 days, which is strange because a whole year for mercury is only 88 days.
Improved answer: It's stranger than that. Mercury rotates in about 58 Earth
days and that's called a sidereal day. However there is also the "solar day".
That is to do with how long the Sun takes to, apparently, move round the sky.
That depends on both the spin and orbital motion of a planet.
For Mercury the solar day is about 176 Earth days. That's TWICE the length of
the year.
It takes about 59 Earth days for Mercury to complete one full rotation on its axis.
Mercury is 58.646 earth days.
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It takes Mercury about 59 Earth days to complete one full rotation on its axis. This means that a day on Mercury (one full rotation) is equivalent to 59 Earth days.
Mercury is 58.646 earth days.
Mercury takes about 88 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun.
It takes approx 88 earth days.
It takes approx 88 earth days.
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It takes Mercury 1407.6 Earth hours to make one full rotation around its axis.