In James Cameron’s Avatar, Pandora is a moon orbiting the fictional planet Polyphemus.
Pandora is the primary setting of the 2009 science-fiction film Avatar. It is depicted as a lush, Earth-sized moon with dense forests, unusual wildlife, floating mountains, and a biologically interconnected ecosystem inhabited by the Na’vi.
Polyphemus is a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. Although Pandora is frequently called a planet in casual discussion, the film’s setting identifies it as a moon. This distinction is one of the most common factual mix-ups surrounding the fictional world.
The name Pandora also connects the film to Greek mythology, but Cameron’s moon is not the mythological figure’s jar or a direct retelling of the ancient story. The shared name is a thematic reference rather than an identity.