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🌑 A single day on Mercury is longer than its entire year.
Mercury rotates so slowly that it takes about 59 Earth days to spin once on its axis…
…but it orbits the Sun extremely fast—just 88 Earth days for a full orbit.
Because of a strange 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, the time from one noon to the next on Mercury (a solar day) ends up being 176 Earth days—twice as long as its year.
So if you lived on Mercury, you’d celebrate two birthdays before you saw the Sun rise again. 🌞
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