Saturn’s small moon discovered in 1980 and named after the mythological figure is called Pandora.
Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn and acts as an outer shepherd moon of the planet’s narrow F ring. Its gravitational influence helps confine and shape the ring, working in combination with the nearby moon Prometheus. The pair are often described as shepherd satellites because of this relationship with the ring material.
Voyager 1 images revealed Pandora in 1980. The moon is irregularly shaped and relatively small compared with Saturn’s major satellites. Its name follows a convention in which many Saturnian moons receive names from Greek and Roman mythology.
Pandora is sometimes mixed up with Prometheus or Epimetheus, both of which are also moons of Saturn and also characters connected with the ancient story. Pandora is the outer F-ring shepherd; Prometheus is the inner shepherd. Calypso belongs to a different Saturnian orbital group.