The moon named after the mythological Pandora is a moon of Saturn.
Pandora is a small outer moon of Saturn discovered in 1980 in images from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. It is classified as a shepherd satellite because its gravity helps influence the shape of Saturn’s narrow F ring. Pandora works alongside the nearby moon Prometheus, whose gravitational effects also interact with the ring material.
The moon’s name continues a pattern in the Saturn system: several satellites are named for figures from Greek and Roman mythology. Pandora was named after the woman in the ancient Greek story whose jar released troubles into the world. This astronomical Pandora should not be confused with the fictional planet Pandora in the film Avatar. Saturn’s Pandora is an irregular, small icy body associated with ring dynamics, not a world with an Earth-like surface.