The trees and plant life of Pandora have formed electrochemical connections between their roots and effectively act as neurons, creating a moon-wide "brain" that has achieved sentience, which is known to the Na'vi as Eywa.
They have the familiar trunks, branches and leaves, though due to the difference in gravity, many of the shapes appear strange to humans and the proportions are greater because of the lower gravity. Other than the richness of varying colors, the trees resemble those of Earth. In the canopy below, other deadly yet exotic animals roam: vicious packs of viperwolves, thick skinned hammerhead titanotheres and the most fearsome creature of all, the thanator. The Na'vi also ride the mountain banshee to hunt from the air, but the hunter can become prey in the presence of the great leonopteryx. One of the creatures on Pandora is the direhorse, a gray-skinned, hexapodal horse-like animal with bioluminescent qualities that the Na'vi ride when hunting. Even from orbit, the scope of florae present on the surface indicates a moon brimming with life. To the cultures of Earth, Pandora is mysterious, primal and terrifying. The news services love to run clips of the wild scenery on Pandora and its bizarre flora and fauna. The names of both the moon and its mother planet are coined by humans in reference to figures in Greek mythology.ĭiscovered by space telescopes at some point between 20, the life-rich Pandora has been the single most interesting thing to happen to the human race in hundreds of years.
It is the fifth moon of the gas giant Polyphemus, which orbits Alpha Centauri A. Pandora is an Earth-like habitable extrasolar moon from the Alpha Centauri System, the closest star system to human's own Solar System. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide (over 18%), Xenon (5.5%), Methane and Hydrogen Sulfide >1% It's kinda the Garden of Eden with teeth and claws.