The Saturnian moon Pandora was discovered in images returned by Voyager 1.
Voyager 1 discovered Pandora in 1980 while conducting a close flyby of Saturn. The small moon orbits outside Saturn’s narrow F ring and helps influence that ring’s structure. Its name comes from Pandora, the figure in Greek mythology whose opening of a vessel released troubles into the world.
Pandora is one of Saturn’s small inner moons and is classified as a shepherd satellite because its gravity helps shape nearby ring material. Its orbit lies near that of Prometheus, another Saturnian moon named after a figure from Greek mythology. The pair are associated with the F ring’s complex appearance.
Voyager 2 also visited Saturn later, and Cassini spent years studying the planet and its rings, but neither probe made the original discovery of Pandora. The discovery belongs specifically to Voyager 1’s 1980 Saturn observations.