Moon
Orbits just outside Saturn's F ring and works with Prometheus to keep the narrow ring confined.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Saturn |
| Distance from parent body | 141,720 km |
| Diameter | 81 km |
| Mass | 1.37 × 10^17 kg |
| Surface gravity | 5.50e-3 m/s² |
| Temperature | -195°C |
| Orbital period | 1 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 16.4 |
| Redshift | 0 |
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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