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A day on Mercury lasts 1,408 hours.

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Mercury’s sidereal day (one rotation relative to the stars) is about 58.6 Earth days, or roughly 1,408 hours. Because Mercury is in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, its solar day (sunrise to sunrise) is much longer—about 176 Earth days.

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