do all other planets in our solar system have day and night cycle like earth??

Question

earth is close to the sun..so we experience night and day due to its move...but what about pluto for example who is way far..does it have the same fact..???

Answer 1

I suggest you start reading Science magazine, which has many
topics and categories in astro-physics, planetary science, and many other sub-divisions of the entire world of physics, focusing
on astronomy.
There are other publications to consider as well.
NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) also has
some vital data concerning the entire universe we live in, and
you might be lucky enough to google in their web site, I don't
know what their current URL is, I'm sure it must be listed under
a nasa.gov.org (a guess) or something close to that.
They may have a contact (email address) that you may ask this
question direct, and get your answer that way.

I can only give you my opinion, and it may not be the most accurate, as I have no hard proof or evidence to back up my assertions.
I would think each planet in our solar system has its own orbit,
just like earth does, so it would follow that the rest of the planets have their own day and night cycles, again just like earth, I see no reason to defer from that opinion, unless some of the planets
do not revolve around the sun on a 360 degree curvature.

I wish I could give you a more definitive answer, but at present, I'm not entirely skilled in the astro-sciences, and I do not wish to
make erroneous statements about someting that I don't know too much about.

Thats my message, good luck.



Donald H. Sites
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PS: Try some of these big think tanks Cato Institute, Washington D.C., Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Palo Alto, California
California Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California,
California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo, Ca. are a
few resources to tap. If I was doing a college paper, thats what I would do, is to arrange interviews (if possible) and talk to the actual people who do the analysis and evaluations of all the space shots and satellites.
NASA/Ames Laboratories here in Mountain View, Ca is another
source to tap.

Answer 2

Mercury and Venus are very close to being tidally locked to the sun - that is, having one side always facing it, and one side always facing away. However, they're not quite there yet. Venus, however, is interesting in that it is rotating backwards relative to the other planets. And so, on Venus, the Sun rises in the west, and slightly over a Venusian year later, sets in the east. That's right, a day on Venus is longer than a year.

Mars' day is a bit longer than the Earths, so it has days and nights, but since the sun is farther away, it doesn't get as bright as on clear days on Earth.

Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets in the solar system, at 10 hours.

As you get farther out in the solar system, the light from the sun is more diffuse, making the days dimmer. On Pluto, for instance, the sun would appear to be just a bright star.

Answer 3

Yes.

However, not all planets have the same tilt to their axis. And being further away (or closer) the effects are quite different.

Mercury is tidally locked with the sun and does not have day and night cycles. One side is eternally lit, and the other dark.

Uranus's axis of rotation is pointed toward the sun as well.

Day and night on pluto would not be that much different, as the sun appears as a large star from out there.

Answer 4

Every planet that rotates has a day and night cycle, i.e. if you pick one point on the plant there is a period where it is in the dark (away from the sun) and a period where it is in the sunlight (facing the sun).

Depending on how fast the planet rotates and how big it is day and night can last alot shorter or longer than that on earth. Some planets have a day lasting hours some have a day lasting weeks.

Answer 5

Since the sun is not much brighter than the average star as far out as Pluto I doubt the fact that it was 'daytime' would make much difference.

Basically though all planets are going to have a day while part of the planet is catching the sun's light. If you search for the individual planets you'll be able to find how long their 'days' are - some are longer than their 'years'!

Answer 6

Solar System Day And Night

Answer 7

What causes day and night is the rotation of the planet. So long as the planet rotates with respect to the Sun, it will experience night and day (it has nothing to do with how close the planet is). All the planets rotate with respect to the Sun, so all planets experience night and day. As far as I know, that is also true for all moons, asteroids, comets, etc. in our solar system.

Answer 8

Yep. All planets rotate, some slow, some fast. Each has a cycle of day and night.

Jupiter, has a very short rotation about 10 hours and Pluto (dwarf planet) has a very long one.

Answer 9

no. pluto is too far for the sun's warmth and light to reach it. the farther you are from the sun the less light and warmth reaches it.
some planets close to earth also have night and day. the only diff is the length of night/day in each planet. the farther they are from the sun the longer their "year" is. like earth we have 365 days, one complete rotation around the sun. so if a planet is further from the sun it has a longer "year". 24 hours is one complete revolution on our axis. other planet that are nearer have longer (and hotter) days. farther planet have shorter days. or in pluto's case, no days at all.

Answer 10

no ...

Mercury experiences three "days" per two "years".

"Until 1962 it was thought that Mercury's "day" was the same length as its "year" so as to keep that same face to the Sun much as the Moon does to the Earth. But this was shown to be false in 1965 by doppler radar observations. It is now known that Mercury rotates three times in two of its years. Mercury is the only body in the solar system known to have an orbital/rotational resonance with a ratio other than 1:1 (though many have no resonances at all). "

all other planets have a "day/night" cycle although on the outer
planets, the diminished light intensity from the sun decreases the differnece between night and day