The NASA space probe named after Pandora’s mythological figure was Pandora. Pandora is a proposed space telescope concept designed to study exoplanet atmospheres by observing transits across their host stars.
The mission concept combines observations from a space-based telescope with coordinated measurements from ground-based facilities. Its scientific goal is to separate changes caused by a planet’s atmosphere from variations produced by the star itself. That distinction is important when astronomers analyze the chemical signatures of distant worlds.
Pandora is not the same as NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, Dawn’s mission to Vesta and Ceres, or ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P. Those missions were separate spacecraft with different destinations and objectives. The name Pandora connects the observatory to the mythological figure while also suggesting investigation of what lies inside distant planetary systems.