Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione. Tethys casts a shadow on Saturn at right.  Pandora - In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman, created and given to humankind by Zeus as one of the punishments for Prometheus' theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the troubles that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life. She was the wife of Epimetheus.

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