Pandora is the Saturn moon that shares its name with the mythological woman associated with Pandora’s box.
Pandora is a small inner moon of Saturn. It acts as a shepherd satellite for Saturn’s narrow F ring, helping confine and shape the ring through its gravitational influence. The moon is irregularly shaped and has a heavily cratered surface.
Voyager 1 images revealed Pandora during the spacecraft’s 1980 encounter with Saturn. The International Astronomical Union later formalized the moon’s mythological name, following the convention of naming many Saturnian satellites after figures from mythology and literature.
Pandora is sometimes mixed up with Prometheus, another Saturn moon and the inner shepherd of the F ring. The pair work together gravitationally, but Pandora is the moon directly named for the woman in the famous myth.