Saturn’s moon discovered by Voyager 1 in 1980 is Pandora. The spacecraft found it in photographs taken near Saturn, and the International Astronomical Union later approved the mythological name.
Pandora is a small inner moon that orbits just outside Saturn’s F ring. Its irregular shape and bright surface reflect its status as a relatively tiny ring-associated satellite rather than a large spherical moon like Titan.
The name comes from Pandora, the first woman in the Greek myth as told most fully by Hesiod. Pandora is sometimes confused with Prometheus, another Saturnian moon; the two names are paired because the moons help influence Saturn’s narrow F ring.
Voyager 1 also discovered Prometheus, which orbits inside the F ring. Their relationship with the ring makes these moons especially important in studies of how small satellites sculpt planetary rings.