Saturn has the small moon named Pandora, discovered in 1980.
Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn and acts as an outer shepherd moon of the planet’s narrow F ring. Voyager 1 images revealed the moon in 1980, and its provisional designation was S/1980 S 26. The International Astronomical Union later approved the name Pandora, drawn from Greek mythology.
The moon is irregularly shaped and is only a few dozen kilometres across. Its gravitational relationship with Saturn’s F ring makes it scientifically interesting, although its influence is shared with the nearby moon Prometheus.
Pandora is one of several Saturnian moons named after figures from mythology. Its neighboring shepherd moon Prometheus creates a deliberate mythological pairing, since the two names belong to the same Greek story tradition.