Saturn’s moon discovered in 1980 and named after a Greek mythological figure is Pandora.
Pandora is a small inner moon of Saturn. It was discovered in photographs taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in October 1980, shortly before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Saturn. The moon was later named after Pandora, the figure from Greek mythology associated with the jar that released troubles into the world.
Pandora is known as a shepherd satellite of Saturn’s narrow F ring. It orbits outside the ring and works with the moon Prometheus, which orbits inside it, to help constrain and shape the ring’s material. Their gravitational relationship makes the F ring one of Saturn’s most dynamically interesting rings.
Pandora is not the only Saturnian moon with a mythological name. Prometheus, Atlas, Janus, Epimetheus, and many others also draw on mythology. The moon’s name is therefore a direct reference to the mythological Pandora, not to a modern media franchise.