Can age be different on other planets?

Did you know that you are a different age on each planet? This is because a year is the time it takes an object in the Solar System to orbit the Sun. every planet or dwarf planet takes a different length of time to do this, so their years can be long or short. A year on Earth is the same as about four years on Mercury, while a year on Pluto takes 248 Earth years!

Mercury

Mercury flies round the Sun more quickly that the other planets – its year is only 88 Earth days long. That means that if you are 10 on Earth, you are 41 on Mercury!

Venus

A day is the amount of time it takes a planet to spin once. Venus takes 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun, but it spins very slowly. This means the days on Venus are very long. In fact, a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus!

Pluto

Pluto is so far from the Sun that you would wait a long time for your first birthday. It would take 2,480 Earth years to turn 10!

Neptune

A year on Neptune takes 165 Earth years. This means that it is impossible to turn one on Neptune in a human lifetime.

 

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