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The Role of Tidal Heating in Planets and Moons
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Tidal heating is a significant heat source for satellites, which drives geological activity, and may create habitable subsurface oceans. When multiple moons have orbital periods that are integer multiples of one another, they always encounter each other at the same point in the orbit, causing gravitational interactions that add up coherently and tweak them into eccentric orbits.

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