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Tidal heating

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Tidal heating or tidal flexing is the heating resulting from a natural satellite or similar body being stretched and squeezed by a much larger body nearby. The flexing causes heat through friction. Liquid water layers, and so habitability, may happen beyond the traditional habitable zone of a solar system.

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