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This is like Total Recall. Any planets with resorts?

Am I recalling correctly about a moon which is supposed to possibly be sorta "earthlike" in our solar system?? Now which one is it...

The closest thing to that would be Saturn's moon Titan. It's not really earthlike, it just has an atmosphere. It has a rocky surface with some ethane lakes, and the atmosphere is 95%nitrogen and 5%methane at a pressure of 100millibars or 1/10th of an atmosphere.
The average temperature is -290F.

They coud also be talking about Europa. Its kinda cold and coverd in ice, but they think it mite have warm water further down, were the volcanos are.

To the best of my knowledge, all information about liquid water beneath the ice on Europa is still purely speculation.

Yeh, but its more likely than not - seeing as this is a moon of Jupiter were talkin about, the intense gravity - from changing directions - wood never let the planets crust settle, and wood more than likely create volcanic activity. Thats why Io is how it is.

Jupiter's three other major moons whitch are nearly planet-sized pull on Io from the other direction and squeeze and stretch Io to heat the core. Such forces are not nearly as strong on the other moons because they are farther out. For example, Callisto is covered in ice and has substantially greater mass, yet shows no sign of geologic activity. There is too little infomation to speculate on the mechanism that causes disruptions of the ice surface of Europa to draw conclusions.

Haha, I love it!