In James Cameron’s Avatar, Pandora is the fictional moon where most of the story takes place.
Pandora orbits the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. It is home to the Na’vi, a tall blue humanoid species whose society is closely connected to the moon’s plants, animals, and spiritual network. The film’s human characters travel there to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium.
The setting is not a planet, despite the way it is sometimes described casually. Calling Pandora a moon is one of the film’s clearest pieces of world-building, and its landscape was designed to feel both alien and ecologically interconnected.
Avatar uses the name Pandora separately from the ancient Greek myth. The shared name evokes a mysterious world containing both beauty and danger, but Cameron’s story does not retell the myth of Pandora’s container.