The Saturnian moon Pandora orbits Saturn.
Pandora is a small outer moon of Saturn and a shepherd satellite of the planet’s narrow F ring. Its gravity helps shape and confine ring material, although Pandora works together with the moon Prometheus rather than acting alone. This pairing echoes the names of two figures from Greek mythology.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered Pandora in 1980, and the International Astronomical Union approved its name in 1985. Images from Voyager revealed an irregular, heavily cratered body. Pandora is only a few dozen kilometers across, making it far smaller than Saturn’s major moons such as Titan and Rhea.
Pandora is sometimes confused with Prometheus, the inner shepherd moon of the F ring. Both moons were discovered in Voyager-era observations and both have mythological names, but Pandora lies outside the F ring while Prometheus orbits inside it. Their gravitational interaction contributes to the ring’s complex structure.