Pandora, the mythological woman’s namesake, is a moon of Saturn.
Saturn’s moon Pandora was discovered in photographs taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1980. It is a small, irregular satellite that orbits near Saturn’s F ring and helps influence the ring’s structure along with the moon Prometheus. The two moons are often called shepherd satellites because of their gravitational relationship with the ring.
The name follows the International Astronomical Union’s practice of assigning mythological names to many planetary satellites. Pandora’s association with Prometheus is especially fitting because both moons are linked to figures from the same Greek mythological cycle.