List of largest craters in the Solar System information
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Following are the largest impact craters on various worlds of the Solar System. For a full list of named craters, 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%
Chicxulub crater
182 km (113 mi)
1.4%
Cause or contributor of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Sudbury Basin
130 km (80 mi)
1%
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)[1]
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
Isidis
~1,900 km (1,200 mi)[2]
28%
Heavily degraded to the northeast
Argyre
1,700 km (1,100 mi)[3]
25.1%
May have an outer ring 2750 km in diameter[3]
Vesta (asteroid)
Rheasilvia
505 km (310 mi)
529 km (569 km)[4]
90%[4]
See also: List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
Veneneia
395 km (250 mi)
70%[4]
Partially obscured by Rheasilvia
Ceres (asteroid)
Kerwan
284 km (180 mi)[5]
952 km
30%
Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image.
Yalode
271 km (170 mi)[5]
28%
Hygiea (asteroid)
Serpens
180±15
434 ± 14 km
40%
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%
See also: List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
Tethys (moon of Saturn)
Odysseus
445 km (277 mi)
1,060 km
42%
Dione (moon of Saturn)
Evander
350 km (220 mi)[6]
1,123 km
34%
Rhea (moon of Saturn)
Mamaldi
480 km (300 mi)[7]
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 Planitia basin
ca. 1,400 × 1,200 km[8] average: ~1,300 km
2,377 km
~54.7%
Partially infilled by convecting Nitrogen ice, heavily eroded
Burney
296 km (184 mi)
12.5%
Heavily degraded, difficult to see
Charon (moon of Pluto)
Mordor Macula basin
ca. 475 km (295 mi)
1,207 km
40%
Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin
Dorothy
ca. 261 km (162 mi)
21%
Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula
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