List of largest craters in the Solar System

Following are the largest impact craters on various worlds of the Solar System.

Body Crater Diameter Diameter of
parent body		 Ratio Images Notes
Mercury Caloris 01.551,550 km (963 mi) 4,880 km 32%
Rembrandt 00.715715 km (444 mi) 15%
Venus Mead 00.28280 km (170 mi) 12,100 km 2%
Earth Vredefort 00.275250–300 km (160–190 mi) 12,740 km 2%
Sudbury Basin 00.250250 km (160 mi) 2%
Chicxulub crater 00.182182 km (113 mi) 1.4% Cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Moon
(moon of Earth)		 Procellarum 02.53,000 km (2,000 mi) 3,470 km 86% Not confirmed as an impact basin.
South Pole–Aitken basin 02.52,500 km (1,600 mi) 70%
Imbrium 01.1451,145 km (711 mi) 33%
Mars North Polar Basin 09.5510,600 × 8,500 km (6,550 × 5,250 mi) 6,780 km 125–155% Not confirmed as an impact basin
Utopia 03.33,300 km (2,100 mi) 50% Largest confirmed impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System
Hellas 02.32,300 km (1,400 mi) 34% Largest visible crater in the Solar System
Vesta Rheasilvia 00.505505 km (310 mi) 529 km (569 km)[1] 90%[1]
Veneneia 00.40395 km (250 mi) 70%[1] Partially obscured by Rheasilvia
Ceres Kerwan 00.28284 km (180 mi)[2] 952 km 30% Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image.
Yalode 00.27271 km (170 mi)[2] 28%
Ganymede
(moon of Jupiter)		 Epigeus 00.343343 km (213 mi) 5,270 km 6.5%
Callisto
(moon of Jupiter)		 Valhalla 00.36360 km (224 mi) 4,820 km 7.5%
Heimdall 00.21210 km (130 mi) 4% (no good images have been taken)
Mimas
(moon of Saturn)		 Herschel 00.139139 km (86 mi) 396 km 35%
Tethys
(moon of Saturn)		 Odysseus 00.445445 km (277 mi) 1,060 km 42%
Dione
(moon of Saturn)		 Evander 00.350350 km (220 mi)[3] 1,023 km 34%
Rhea
(moon of Saturn)		 Mamaldi 00.480480 km (300 mi)[4] 1,530 km 31%
Tirawa 00.36360 km (220 mi) 24%
Titan
(moon of Saturn)		 Menrva 00.392392 km (244 mi) 5,150 km 7.5%
Iapetus
(moon of Saturn)		 Turgis 00.58580 km (360 mi) 1,470 km 40%
Engelier 00.504504 km (313 mi) 34%
Gerin 00.445445 km (277 mi) 30% Gerin is overlain by Engelier
Falsaron 00.424424 km (263 mi) 29%
Titania
(moon of Uranus)		 Gertrude 00.326326 km (203 mi) 1,580 km 21% Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters.
Pluto Sputnik basin? 00.925ca. 1,050×800 km 2,370 km 34–44%
unnamed crater 00.450450 km (280 mi) 19% Upper right of image, difficult to see
Charon
(moon of Pluto)		 Mordor 00.475ca. 475 km (295 mi) 1,207 km 40% Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin.
unnamed crater 00.150ca. 150 km (93 mi) 12% Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rheasilvia and Veneneia are 95% and 75% of the mean diameter of Vesta, 529 km. However, the mean is affected by the craters themselves. They are 89% and 69% the mean equatorial diameter of 569 km.
  2. 1 2
  3. ↑ USGS
  4. ↑ USGS

See also

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