Tidal heating (also known as tidal working or tidal flexing) occurs through the tidal friction processes: orbital and rotational energy is dissipated...

Tidal heating of Io (also known as tidal working) occurs through the tidal friction processes between Jupiter and its moon. Orbital and rotational energy...

Dione excites its orbital eccentricity, which is damped by tidal forces, tidally heating its interior and driving the geological activity. Cassini performed...

in the Solar System. This extreme geologic activity is the result of tidal heating from friction generated within Io's interior as it is pulled between...

radiation, it may work in favour of satellite habitability by allowing tidal heating. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center modelled the temperature...

S.; Kasting, J. F.; Heller, R. (2013). "Tidal Venuses: Triggering a Climate Catastrophe via Tidal Heating". Astrobiology. 13 (3): 225–250. arXiv:1203...

receives thermal energy from tidal heating, which occurs through the tidal friction and tidal flexing processes caused by tidal acceleration: orbital and...

the Sun. Tidal forces are also responsible for tidal locking, tidal acceleration, and tidal heating. Tides may also induce seismicity. By generating...

today, resulting in greater tidal heating than experienced today. Original estimates found that even early tidal heating would be minimal, perhaps 0.02...

speculated that this may be the result of tectonic activity due to tidal heating. Next are the dark regions that cover about a third of Ganymede. These...

to diffusion. Tidal forces between celestial orbiting bodies cause friction that heats up their interiors. This is known as tidal heating, and it helps...

cryovolcanism is driven by escaping internal heat, often supplied by extensive tidal heating in the case of the moons of the giant planets. However, isolated dwarf...

Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon) and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth)...

eccentric orbit around Neptune, inducing extreme tidal heating in Triton's interior. This tidal heating would have likely fully melted Triton, rapidly differentiating...

where plate tectonics is dominant. Io is exceptional for the strong tidal heating it undergoes, caused by the eccentricity of its orbit (which results...

Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods. Although...

substantial tidal heating due to deformations arising from their orbital eccentricities and gravitational interactions with one another. Such heating would...

Volcanism on outer solar system moons is powered mainly by tidal heating. Tidal heating caused by the deformation of a body’s shape due to mutual gravitational...

asthenospheres of the Solar System. Sustained by other energy sources, such as tidal heating or radioactive decay or pressurized by non-atmospheric means, liquid...

caused by gravity (the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism), nuclear fusion, tidal heating, core solidification (heat of fusion released as molten core material...

that heating resulting from this tidal locking may play a major role in the planet's geology. Models proposed by scientists predict that tidal heating could...

orbital eccentricity of 0.000016, Triton's interior may still experience tidal heating through obliquity tides. Triton is one of the most geologically active...

recent geological activity than other Uranian moons, most likely due to tidal heating. Discovered on 24 October 1851 by William Lassell, it is named for a...

causing a varying tidal bulge. This variation in the shape of Io causes frictional heating in its interior. Without this tidal heating, Io might have been...

present. Peale and Cassen figured out in 1979 the important role of tidal heating (aka: tidal flexing) on satellite evolution and structure. The first confirmed...

these systems is the intense tidal heating caused by the short distance of planets from their host red dwarfs. Other tidal effects reduce the probability...

into a non-tidally locked orbit would be possible even with low eccentricity. A non-locked orbit, however, would result in tidal heating of the planet's...

periodically, with the resulting friction producing internal heat. This tidal heating could melt rocks into magma, which would then erupt through volcanoes...

decay of radioactive materials (e.g. uranium, thorium, and 26Al), or tidal heating caused by interactions with other bodies. Some planets and moons accumulate...

Jupiter after its formation. Callisto's gradual accretion and the lack of tidal heating meant that not enough heat was available for rapid differentiation....