The characteristics of the planet Mars are its rotation and orbit. Days on Mars are slightly longer than Earth days. This red planet takes 24 hours and 40 minutes to rotate once on its axis. For comparison, Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes.
The year on Mars is also longer than Earth. That’s because it takes 687 days to make one trip around the Sun, as opposed to Earth which takes 365.25 days. The longer year is due to Mars’ distance from the Sun, and this planet has the second most eccentric orbit of any body in the solar system.
At its farthest distance (at aphelion), Mars is 249.23 million kilometers from the Sun. At perihelion (its closest approach), Mars is only 206.62 million km away. On average, Mars is about 227.9 million km from the Sun.
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