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given that the moons are tidally locked, is it going to be safer on the far sides?
by clort 3y ago
given that the moons are tidally locked, is it going to be safer on the far sides?
- gambiting 3y agoSure! It still leaves the issue of getting there, and you can't stay in the shadow of a moon the whole way there.
- ianburrell 3y agoThe radiation doesn't come from Jupiter but from its magnetosphere. The radiation comes from belts, like Earth's Van Allen belts, but much stronger. The Galilean moons are all inside the magnetosphere and Io is in the middle of the strongest belt.