Voyager 1 discovered Pandora, Saturn’s small moon, in images taken in 1980.
Pandora is an inner moon of Saturn and a shepherd satellite of the planet’s narrow F ring. Voyager 1 photographed it during its encounter with the Saturn system in November 1980, providing the observations that established the moon’s existence.
The moon was later studied in much greater detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004. Cassini observations helped scientists examine Pandora’s irregular shape, bright surface, and gravitational relationship with the F ring.
A common mix-up is assigning the discovery to Voyager 2, which also visited Saturn but arrived later, in 1981. Cassini was not the discoverer; it supplied later close observations and measurements. Pandora’s name comes from Pandora in Greek mythology.