Relativity & Heat: Does Speed Increase Heat Needed?

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I was wondering: relativity predicts that the mass of an object increases with its speed. Does this imply that a moving object would require a larger amount of heat in order to increase its temperature than an object at rest?
 
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Not in the rest frame of the object. The question is: how does a temperature field transform between inertial frames?
 

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