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 gravity
Orbit around Saturn
15.2 hours
0.63 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Mass
- 1.39 × 10¹⁷ kg · 0.00000189 Moon masses
- JPL SSD Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters (GM SAT415) — dynamical (spacecraft ephemeris fit)
- Radius
- 40.6 km · 2% of our Moon's radius
- JPL SSD Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters (mean radius)
- Density
- 495 kg/m³ · 0.49× water
- Computed from mass and radius
- Surface gravity
- 0.00562 m/s² · 0% of Earth's gravity
- Computed from mass and radius
- Escape velocity
- 21.4 m/s · 0% of Earth's escape velocity
- Computed from mass and radius
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 142,347 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 15.22 hours
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.0005997
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 6.51 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.0112 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.
Discovery & history
- By
- Voyager Science Team
Pandora was discovered in 1980 by Voyager Science Team. Saturn's moons are named after the Titans, giants and monsters of Greek and Roman myth. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.
Images
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