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Which of the Galilean moons could we Terraform, and why?

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Which moon would be best for Terraforming?  

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  1. 1. Which Galilean Moon would be best for Terraforming?

    • Io
      0
    • Europa
      4
    • Ganymede
      6
    • Callisto
      9

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peadar1987

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7 minutes ago, Rakaydos said:

Actually, I was talking about turning the hazardus radiation into benificial heat for the terriforming effort. I'm asing about the planetary warming made possible by turning the planet's entire atmosphere into a radiation absorber.

It wouldn't be very much. If you roughly assume a person has an area exposed to the radiation of 1 square metre, that gives you a couple of milliwatts per square metre. Solar irradiance at Jupiter is 50W/m2. Energy coming in from radiation is several orders of magnitude lower than that.

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