Pandora is the Saturnian moon that shares its name with the woman from the Greek myth.
Pandora was discovered in photographs taken by Voyager 1 in 1980 and was initially designated S/1980 S 26. It is a small irregular moon that orbits Saturn near the planet’s narrow F ring. Its gravity helps shape and confine that ring, making Pandora one of Saturn’s so-called shepherd satellites.
The moon was named after Pandora, the figure in Greek mythology associated with the vessel that released troubles into the world. Its partner moon Prometheus, also discovered in Voyager images, is named after Pandora’s mythological counterpart and orbits near the same ring system.
Pandora is not Saturn’s largest or most famous moon; Titan holds that distinction. It is also not the same object as asteroid 55 Pandora. Astronomical naming therefore provides two separate celestial references to the myth: one asteroid and one small moon.