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What causes a day on a planet?
A day is defined as the time it take a planet to revolve once on it's axis. So it is the time it takes for a planet to "spin" once.
How long is a day and a year on the planet?
A planets day (solar day) is the time it takes to rotate once on its axis relative to the sun, the synodic period. A year on a planet is the time taken for the planet travel once around the sun.
When any planet travels all the way around the sun does it make a day?
No, that's a `year`. A day is when the planet has spun once on its axis.
What planet rotates on its axis in one day?
The Earth rotates on its axis in one day. Strictly speaking that's the "sidereal day" not the "solar day". Also, by definition, each planet rotates once in a period that's the "sidereal day" for that particular planet.
What does the planets rotation on its axis determine the length of?
Roughly, the day. To be precise, the day also depends slightly on the planet's orbit around the Sun, but if the time it takes for a planet to rotate once is short, compared to the time of an orbit, it won't make much difference. For instance, a day on Earth is 24 hours; the time it takes Earth to rotate once is about 23 hours and 56 minutes.
When does a planet complete a full circle?
It revolves around the sun once a year and rotates around its axis once a day.
What do you call the period of time it takes a planet to revolve one time?
The time it takes a planet or satellite to revolve once is called its day.
How long do planets take to rotate once?
It very much depends which planet you mean, as it depends on dozens of factors! Referring to Earth, it takes one day (24 hours) to rotate once around it's own axis.
How often does the sequence of day and night repeat?
It depends where you are on the planet. For most of the planet the day-night sequence is repeated every 24 hours. However at the poles the day night sequence is repeated only once every year.
Which planet experiences the greatest change between its actual day temperature and actual night temperature?
Mercury with a surface temperature of 700K in the daytime and 100K in the night
How much poop on the planet in one day?
5 billion tons
How much does it rain a day in the amozen rainforest?
about once a day
