List of largest craters in the Solar System

Following are the largest impact craters on various worlds of the Solar System. For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System.

Body Crater Crater diameter Body diameter Ratio Images Notes
Mercury Caloris 1,550 km (963 mi) 4,880 km 32%
Rembrandt 715 km (444 mi) 15%
Venus Mead 280 km (170 mi) 12,100 km 2%
Earth Vredefort 250–300 km (160–190 mi) 12,740 km 2%
Sudbury Basin 250 km (160 mi) 2%
Chicxulub crater 182 km (113 mi) 1.4% Cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Moon
(moon of Earth)		 Procellarum 3,000 km (2,000 mi) 3,470 km 86% Not confirmed as an impact basin.
South Pole–Aitken basin 2,500 km (1,600 mi) 70%
Imbrium 1,145 km (711 mi) 33%
Mars North Polar Basin 10,600 × 8,500 km (6,550 × 5,250 mi) 6,780 km 125–155% Not confirmed as an impact basin
Utopia 3,300 km (2,100 mi) 50% Largest confirmed impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System
Hellas 2,300 km (1,400 mi) 34% Largest visible crater in the Solar System
Vesta Rheasilvia 505 km (310 mi) 529 km (569 km)[1] 90%[1]
Veneneia 395 km (250 mi) 70%[1] Partially obscured by Rheasilvia
Ceres Kerwan 284 km (180 mi)[2] 952 km 30% Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image.
Yalode 271 km (170 mi)[2] 28%
Ganymede
(moon of Jupiter)		 Epigeus 343 km (213 mi) 5,270 km 6.5%
Callisto
(moon of Jupiter)		 Valhalla 360 km (224 mi) 4,820 km 7.5%
Heimdall 210 km (130 mi) 4% (no good images have been taken)
Mimas
(moon of Saturn)		 Herschel 139 km (86 mi) 396 km 35%
Tethys
(moon of Saturn)		 Odysseus 445 km (277 mi) 1,060 km 42%
Dione
(moon of Saturn)		 Evander 350 km (220 mi)[3] 1,123 km 34%
Rhea
(moon of Saturn)		 Mamaldi 480 km (300 mi)[4] 1,530 km 31%
Tirawa 360 km (220 mi) 24%
Titan
(moon of Saturn)		 Menrva 392 km (244 mi) 5,150 km 7.5%
Iapetus
(moon of Saturn)		 Turgis 580 km (360 mi) 1,470 km 40%
Engelier 504 km (313 mi) 34%
Gerin 445 km (277 mi) 30% Gerin is overlain by Engelier
Falsaron 424 km (263 mi) 29%
Titania
(moon of Uranus)		 Gertrude 326 km (203 mi) 1,580 km 21% Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters.
Pluto Sputnik basin ca. 1,300 × 900 km 2,370 km 34–44%
unnamed crater 450 km (280 mi) 19% Upper right of image, difficult to see
Charon
(moon of Pluto)		 Mordor ca. 475 km (295 mi) 1,207 km 40% Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin.
unnamed crater ca. 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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