Mercury Sometimes Has a Double Sunrise Due to its Slow Rotation Around its Own Axis and its Uneven Orbital Path Around the Sun.
Mercury’s highly eccentric egg-shaped orbit is as close to the Sun as 29 million miles and as far as 43 million miles. It travels around the Sun every 88 days at nearly 29 miles per second, faster than any other planet. But did you know that this created double sunrises? Due to Mercury’s slow rotation […]