2. Synonyms acquire, attain, bag, bring in, capture, carry, come by, draw, gain, garner, get, knock down, land, make, obtain, procure, pull down, realize, reap, secure, win.
The sidereal day and the solar day. A sidereal day on Mars is the length of time that it takes the planet to rotate once on its axis. A sidereal day on Mars lasts 24 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds. The solar day is how long it takes the Sun to return to the meridian. This position changes slightly each day, but a solar day on Mars lasts 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds. Length of a day on Mars.
So the Martian year consists of 668.6 Martian days.   A Martian day is 39.5 minutes longer than an Earth day. But Mars' circumference is just over half of Earth's, so its spin velocity is also about half, just 868 km/hr compared to Earth's 1674 km/hr at the Equator. 8 people found this useful.