The moon where James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar takes place is called Pandora. In the film’s fictional setting, Pandora is a habitable moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri system.
Pandora is home to the Na’vi, an intelligent blue-skinned species whose communities maintain a strong spiritual and ecological relationship with their environment. The human expedition seeks unobtanium, a valuable fictional mineral found there.
Avatar uses the mythological name as a thematic choice. Like the ancient Pandora story, the film connects curiosity, discovery, and consequences, although the moon and its inhabitants are science-fiction creations rather than elements of Greek mythology.
This fictional Pandora is not related to Saturn’s real moon or asteroid 55 Pandora. The shared name is a cultural reference, while the locations belong to different fictional, planetary, and mythological contexts.