How long is a year on other planets?
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A year on other planets.
First of all, what is a ‘year’? A year is a time period that a planet takes to make a full trip around the Sun. A year on Earth is 365 days (or 365 days plus 6 hours to be exact).
What about other planets in the solar system?
Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. So, a year on Mercury is 88 days (Earth days).
Venus is the second closest to the Sun and a year is 225 days.
After Venus, comes Earth. And after Earth, comes Mars. On Mars, a year is 687 days.
Next is Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. A year on Jupiter is 4,333 days.
After that, on Saturn a year is 10,759 days.
Uranus is the second-last planet. A year on Saturn is 30,687 days.
The last planet in the solar system is Neptune. A year on Neptune is 60,190 days. That is about 164 Earth years!
Do you want to know how old you would be on other planets? Check it on this website www.https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/
Watch a video of Earth at night, seen from space:
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