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Do the Other Planets Rotate?If we study the movement of the planets, one planet after another, we see that the planet Mercury revolves around the sun in an orbit that takes 88 days to complete.
Today it is believed that Mercury rotates once every 58 or 59 days. This means that the planet Mercury has a solar day about 180 days long.
As for the planet Venus, it completes one full rotation every 243 days. Mars rotates at almost the speed of Earth, and because of its tilt on its axis, it forms seasons like the seasons of Earth.
We notice that the planet Mars, which is the largest of the planets, rotates at great speed and takes less than 10 hours and 14 minutes only to rotate once on its axis.
The strange thing about Uranus is that it rotates in an odd way, as its direction is actually on its side.
As for Neptune and Pluto, they are two planets far from the sun, so the information about them seems little compared with the rest of the planets.
Neptune rotates on its axis in 18.5 hours, and its revolution around the sun takes 165 years to complete one orbit.
Pluto takes 249 Earth years to revolve once around the sun. Today, thanks to the studies and discoveries carried out by scientists in the field of space, we obtain new and additional information about the planets and their movements known to us, and which we have not yet known.
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