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Which has a shorter rotation earth or mars?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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The sidereal rotational period of Mars is 1.025 957 days (ie 24.62296 hours)

The sidereal rotational period of Earth is 0.99726968 day (ie 23h 56m 4.100s)

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