Saturn’s small moon discovered in Voyager 1 images in 1980 is Pandora.
Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn and a shepherd moon of the planet’s narrow F ring. It was identified in photographs returned by Voyager 1 and was later studied through additional spacecraft observations. Its companion shepherd moon, Prometheus, helps shape the complicated structure of the F ring through gravitational interactions.
The moon’s name comes from Greek mythology, where Pandora is associated with the container that released troubles into the world. Saturn’s other moons also include mythological names, making Pandora part of a broader naming tradition in planetary science.
Pandora is irregularly shaped and relatively small. It is not the same object as the asteroid 55 Pandora, and it should also be distinguished from the fictional moon in Avatar. These similarly named bodies belong to astronomy, cinema, and mythology respectively.