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Lunar Warming: Jupiter’s Icy Moons Are Heating Each Other Up, New Research Finds – The Weather Channel
The moons gravitationally tug at each other and create friction—a process called tidal heating—while Jupiter itself stretches and squishes them.
Despite being so far away from the Sun, Jupiters moons are hothotter than they should be! The beautiful, icy moons are known to contain interiors warm enough to host oceans of liquid water. And on the planets innermost moon, Io, the heat is intense enough to melt rocks into magma.
Previously, researchers believed that Jupiter was the sole reason behind most of the heating associated with Io’s internal ocean of magma as well as the liquid interiors of its three icy Galilean moons: Europa, Ganyme…
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