does jupiter give off Heat?

Question

if it does is it hot enough to support life on any of its moons?

Answer 1

Jupiter is highly radioactive, but it doesn't transmit heat into space.

Jupiter warms it's moons in another way. It's called the tidal effect. As moons spin around Jupiter they are pulled on by the giant and each other. As they are tugged on the are stretched and relaxed. As this happens the moon's core heats up, kinda like a baker needing a ball of dough. As the moon stretches the rock that make it up move across one another generating a enormous amount of friction. This generates heat. Io, Jupiter's closest of is the most volcanically active object in our solar system. Think of Vesuvius, Krakatau, Mt St Hellens and Tambora constantly erupting then add a hanful more volcanos and you have the surface of io. Io in fact is to volcanically active that the moon is litterally turning isself inside out. Now comes europa the ice moon, if the same tidal effect going on io is happening on europa, then that means there could be and ocean of liquid water trapped beneth the icey surface. If there is volcanism there there will prolly be sulfides. We know some bateria thrive off of sulfides. In face at the bottom of the ocean there are entire eco systems that the bacteria is the bassis of, completley cut off from the light of the sun. So it is possible for life to exist on europa. Granted not life as you might know it, but life none the less.

Answer 2

Jupiter gives off more heat than it receives. Had it been much bigger, it may have developed into a small star. Tidal forces heat up the inner moons of Jupiter, probably making them too unstable to support life, but who knows, all the ingredients are there.

Answer 3

Jupiter emits twice as much heat as it receives. Sadly this is still very small as Jupiter is so far away. The temperature at the cloud tops is -120C as opposed to the sun at several thousand degrees.

Answer 4

No it is a cold planet,and the farthest away from the sun
the colder.