The Saturn moon discovered in 1980 and named after the Greek figure Pandora is Pandora.
Pandora is a small inner satellite of Saturn. Voyager 1 images led astronomers to identify it in 1980, and the International Astronomical Union later approved the mythological name. Pandora orbits near Saturn’s F ring and helps influence that ring’s structure along with the neighboring moon Prometheus.
The moon’s name is especially appropriate because Pandora and Prometheus are linked in Greek mythology. The two satellites are also often discussed together because of their gravitational effects on the F ring. Pandora is sometimes described as a “shepherd satellite,” although its exact dynamical role is more complex than a simple shepherding label suggests.
This celestial Pandora is unrelated to the asteroid 55 Pandora and to the fictional moon in Avatar. All three names ultimately draw on different uses of the same mythological figure.