Key facts
- Category
- Moons
- Object class
- Small inner moon
- Composition
- Water ice and fine icy debris
- Temperature
- 78 K surface
Pandora
103 kmmaximum extent
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Pandora is a small, irregular inner moon of Saturn orbiting just outside the F ring. Its dusty, ice-coated surface has shallow craters, ridges, and grooves, while its gravity helps disturb the ring's changing edge.
Pandora orbits just outside Saturn’s F ring. Cassini images show a potato-shaped moon coated in fine icy debris, with shallow-looking craters, ridges and grooves. The two moons are often called the F ring’s shepherds, but their roles differ: Prometheus helps hold the ring’s main strand in place, while Pandora tends to disrupt it.
Links
- Wikipedia
- Pandora on Wikipedia
Size neighbors
Objects near Pandora on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, Pandora falls between 253 Mathilde and Cygnus X-1. The band uses nearby Small inner moon records.
Sources
References for Pandora
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Pandora — Wikipedia
- Visual reference: Wikimedia Commons (Cassini 2005 / NASA, Public domain)
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