Pandora

Moon· orbits Saturn

Pandora is a moon orbiting Saturn.

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Key facts

Mass

1.39 × 10¹⁷ kg

0.00000189 Moon masses

Radius

40.6 km

2% of our Moon's radius

Surface gravity

0.00562 m/s²

0% of Earth's

Orbit around Saturn

15.2 hours

0.63 Earth days

Science

Physical

Mass: 1.39 × 10¹⁷ kg · 0.00000189 Moon masses
Radius: 40.6 km · 2% of our Moon's radius
Density: 495 kg/m³ · 0.49× water
Surface gravity: 0.00562 m/s² · 0% of Earth's
Escape velocity: 21.4 m/s · 0% of Earth's

Orbit around Saturn

Distance from Saturn: 4,267,934 km
Orbital period: 15.22 hours
Eccentricity: 0.0005997
Inclination: 6.51 °

Radiation & temperature

Insolation: 0.0112 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives

Discovery & history

By: Voyager Science Team

Pandora was discovered in 1980 by Voyager Science Team. Saturn's moons are named after giants and deities of world mythology — its distant irregular moons after Norse, Inuit and Gallic figures. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.

Images

Pandora, an F-ring shepherd moon, imaged by Cassini — NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons

Shadow Misses a Ring — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Flying by Pandora — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Quartet and Crescent — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Trio of Small Moons — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Distant Shepherd — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Beyond Bright Rings — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

With Ghostly Spokes — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Images from open archives · credit shown per image