Assertion: mercury | /r/CapableOf | rotate on its axis
Facets:
value: very slowly
type: MANNER
value: from sunrise
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[a]
text: Mercury rotates on its axis very slowly so that half the surface is facing the sun for an extended period.
text: Mercury rotates on its axis very slowly, while it orbits the sun quickly.
text: It takes about 176 Earth days for Mercury to rotate on its axis (from sunrise to sunrise), while Earth takes only 24 hours.