The planet Mercury spins slowly west to east, once every 58.64 Earth days.
*Because it is also going around the Sun every 88 Earth days, an observer on Mercury's surface would experience a sunrise or sunset only once every 176 Earth days. The slow, coordinated turning keeps any point on the planet exposed to the Sun for two entire orbits before finally facing away for two orbits!
A solar day on Mercury lasts about 176 Earth days, which is about twice as long as Mercury's orbital period, (roughly 88 Earth Days). As a result, a Mercury year is about 0.5 Mercury days long, and one Mercury day lasts approximately two Mercury years.
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days hence a Mercuric "year" is less than three months on Earth. It goes round the sun in the same direction as all the other planets in the solar system.
For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun (rotating once on its axis for each orbit and thus always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun (like our the Moon always faces the Earth)).
However, we have since discovered that the planet has a 3:2 spin--orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two orbits it makes around the Sun.
Mercury's rotation period is 59 Earth days.
The planet Mercury, closest to the Sun, takes 58 days to rotate, which is a bit weird; Mercury's YEAR is only 88 days.
About 58.5 Earth days.
Uranus has a horizontal rotation
A rotation happens in a day
Prograde rotation turns counter clockwise while retrograde rotation turns clockwise. ( As viewed from above the Earth's North Pole.)
rotation is the spiinning of the planet on its axis and revoulution is the orbiting of the planet around the sun
rotation is the spiinning of the planet on its axis and revoulution is the orbiting of the planet around the sun
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88 days
3600 millions kilmmetres from the sun
mecury is first in the solar system
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Internal rotation refers to the rotation towards the axis of the body. External rotation refers to the rotation away from the center of the body.
rotation...rotation.
rotation is fololy
rotation is fololy
It is rotation.
The centre of rotation, the angle of rotation and, unless the angle is 180 degrees, the direction of rotation.