Amazon Quiz: One day on this planet takes about how many hours?
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Answer: 10
One day on Jupiter is 0d 9h 56m on Earth. The largest planet in the Solar System is fifth from the Sun. It is made of gas and has a mass of more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. It is slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
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Jupiter spines, or rotates, the fastest in the Solar System. It completes one rotation in 10 hours. This means it has the shortest day of all planets. However, it does not rotate as a solid.
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The largest planet’s rotation is faster than its polar regions at a speed of 28,273 miles/hour (about 43,000 kilometers/hour). A day varies from 9 hours and 56 minutes around the poles to 9 hours and 50 minutes close to the equator.
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Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium with small amounts of water droplets, ice crystals, ammonia crystals, and other elements. It is a combination of shades of white, orange, brown and red.
Planet/Day Length
Mercury 1,408 hours
Venus 5,832 hours
Earth 24 hours
Mars 25 hours
Jupiter 10 hours
Saturn 11 hours
Uranus 17 hours
Neptune 16 hours
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