because that is how long the earth takes to make 1 full rotation on its axis
Our day is based on the Earth's rotation, that is most people say it is 24 hours. If you want to get technical it takes 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.2 seconds.
One earth day contains twenty four hours, right on the dot, assuming that no leap seconds have been added to or deleted from the day in question.
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Earth day lasts 24 hours! During those 24 hours you are supposed to turn your lights off for 1 hour!
First understand that night is caused when a point on a planet rotates with the planet so that it is not pointing towards the sun (it rotates into the shadow of its planet). When it is pointing towards the sun it is day!On Earth as the planet rotates once on its axis every 24 hours, a point on its surface will be in shadow for 12 hours at a time and in daylight for the other 12 hours.------------------------------------------------------------When the Earth spins around on its axis, it creates night and day on Earth. This movement makes it look like the Sun is moving across the sky. The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, turning day into night.Most places on Earth have some amount of day and night every 24 hours. On Earth, the length of day and night usually changes with the seasons.When your location on Earth is facing toward the sun, it is day. When your location is facing away from the sun, it is night.Only the half of the rotating Earth that faces the Sun is illuminated at any given time.
24 hours
one day on earth is 24 hours.
A day on Uranus is shorter than a day on Earth. Earth's day is roughly 24 hours long. A day on Uranus is 17 hours, 14 minutes long.
When the Earth first formed, a day was about 6 hours long.
24 hours
A day on Saturn is about 11 hours on Earth.
24 hours a day
About 12 hours if you don't count the night.
16.11 hours.
24 hours its not actually 23 hours 56minutes 4.1seconds
No. Jupiter rotates very fast, and a "day" on Jupiter is a little under 10 hours long.
It is approx 4223 Earth-hours = 176 Earth-days long.