In James Cameron’s film Avatar, the Na’vi live on the moon Pandora.
Pandora is a fictional moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. The 2009 film follows Jake Sully, a former Marine who travels there as part of the Avatar Program and operates a genetically engineered Na’vi-human body. The story’s central conflict concerns human attempts to extract resources from Pandora and the Na’vi effort to defend their home.
Pandora is not presented as a planet, although characters and viewers sometimes casually call it one. Its forests, floating mountains, wildlife, and bioluminescent ecosystems form the film’s main visual and ecological setting. The moon’s networked life is connected through the planetary deity or guiding force Eywa.
The name also connects Cameron’s fictional world to the ancient Pandora myth, but the film’s moon is a separate science-fiction creation. Avatar was released in 2009 and became known for its extensive use of computer-generated imagery and performance-capture technology.