Saturn has a moon named Pandora, discovered in 1980 and named after the Greek mythological figure.
Pandora is a small inner moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 by the Voyager 1 imaging team, although its existence was confirmed from images taken during the spacecraft’s encounter with Saturn. The moon was later named after Pandora, the figure associated with the famous jar in Greek mythology.
Pandora acts as an outer shepherd satellite of Saturn’s narrow F ring. Its gravitational influence helps shape and maintain the ring’s structure, alongside the moon Prometheus on the other side. That pairing creates a particularly fitting mythological connection because Prometheus and Pandora are linked in Hesiod’s story.
This moon is often confused with asteroid 55 Pandora, which is a separate object in the main asteroid belt. The moon’s name does not mean that it is a literal container or that its surface has mythological properties; the connection is purely through naming.