Pandora, one of Saturn’s moons, was first photographed by Voyager 1.
Voyager 1 discovered Pandora in photographs taken during its Saturn encounter in 1980. The moon is a small outer shepherd satellite of Saturn’s narrow F ring, where its gravity helps influence the ring’s structure. Voyager 1’s images revealed the moon and allowed astronomers to identify its relationship with the ring system.
Pandora was officially named in 1985 after the figure from Greek mythology. Its irregular, bright surface and relatively low density distinguish it from Saturn’s much larger moons such as Titan and Rhea. The moon is also sometimes discussed together with Prometheus, another small shepherd satellite near the F ring.
Cassini later provided far more detailed observations of Saturn’s moons and rings, but it was not the spacecraft that first photographed Pandora. That earlier discovery belongs to Voyager 1 during the 1980 flyby.