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OCR: SOLAR DAY THE SOLAR DAY of a planet or other Solar-System object is the interval between successive sunrises. It is different from the planet's sidereal day (the time it takes to rotate once when measured in relation to distant stars) because, with each rotation, the planet has always moved some distance along its orbit around the Sun.