NATS 1880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Galilean Moons, Christiaan Huygens, Tidal Acceleration
12 Apr 2016
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Jovian planets are likely not habitable, however their moons may be: there has been interest in the galilean satellites of jupiter, as well as saturns moon. Jovian moons: there are satellites that orbit the 4 jovian planets. Jupiter (67+), saturn (62+), uranus (27+), and neptune (13: they vary in size, similarly varied properties, the 4 galilean satellites (ganymede, callisto, io, europa) orbit jupiter, titan and. Synchronous rotation and tidal forces: tides contribute to two important phenomena of interest, why are there high and low tide? they are a differential gravitational force. Hot stuff: despite the small size of the galilean satellites, there is significant internal heat in some of the satellites, particularly io (which is also the most volcanically active object in the solar system) Io: the volcanic activity comes from 2 factors tidal heating from jupiter is strong on io.
