It takes about 58.6 Earth days.
Sidereal rotation period is 58.646 days
Orbital period is 87.969 days
For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. However, radar observations in 1965 proved that the planet has a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun; the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this resonance stable-at perihelion, when the solar tide is strongest, the Sun is nearly still in Mercury's sky.
The original reason astronomers thought it was synchronously locked was that whenever Mercury was best placed for observation, it was always nearly at the same point in its 3:2 resonance, hence showing the same face. This is because, coincidentally, Mercury's rotation period is almost exactly half of its synodic period with respect to Earth.
It takes Mercury just over 58 days to rotate on it's axis and 88 days to orbit the Sun
Mercury rotates on its axis once in about 58.6 Earth days.
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Mercury rotates once in about 58.6 Earth days.
It takes Mercury just over 58 days to rotate on it's axis and 88 days to orbit the Sun
Rotation period (length of day in Earth days) 58.65 earth days Revolution period (length of year in Earth days)87.97 earth days
how long does it take for Mercury to rotate on its own axis IN ONE DAY
Mercury does not spin as fast as Earth, so a Mercurian day (the time it takes a planet to rotate once) is 59 Earth days.
628 days.
No, it take Mercury 58 days 15 hours to rotate once.
I believe it is 88 days.
it takes Mercury 1368936475.26579980 days.
40 days
Venus : about 243 Earth days. Mercury about 58.65 Earth days.
it takes 88 days
Mercury rotates once in about 58.6 Earth days.
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 takes 59 earth days to make one full rotation around its axis.
58 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes is the time for one rotation on Mercury.
Mercury is weird. It circles the sun every 88 days, and takes 58.6 days to rotate once on its axis !That's 1,406 hours .