How long does it take mars to axis? It takes any planet one day to rotate on its axis. A Martian day is only slightly longer than an Earth day: 24 hrs. 39 mins. 35 secs.
2. Divide the number of seconds by 60 to convert seconds to minutes. Every 60 seconds a full minute has passed. Dividing a number tells you how many times one number fits in the other.
For the metric unit of second, there are decimal prefixes representing 10-24 to 10 24 seconds. Some common units of time in seconds are: an hour is 3600 seconds; a day is 86,400 seconds, a week is 604,800 seconds; a year is about 31.6 million seconds; and a century is a little over 3 billion (3.16*10 9) seconds.