Pandora

Moon

Orbits just outside Saturn's F ring and works with Prometheus to keep the narrow ring confined.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsSaturn
Distance from parent body141,720 km
Diameter81 km
Mass1.37 × 10^17 kg
Surface gravity5.50e-3 m/s²
Temperature-195°C
Orbital period1 days
Apparent magnitude16.4
Redshift0

Pandora in context

At 81 km across, Pandora is 2.3 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It orbits Saturn at 141,720 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 15.1 hours.

An average temperature of 78 K works out at -195 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

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