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List of largest craters in the Solar System

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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) 		1,207 km Dorothy ca. 261 km (162 mi) 21%
Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula

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References

  1. ^ McGill, G. E. (1989-03-10). "Buried topography of Utopia, Mars: Persistence of a giant impact depression". Journal of Geophysical Research. 94: 2753–2759. Bibcode:1989JGR....94.2753M. doi:10.1029/JB094iB03p02753.
  2. ^ Tornabene, Livio L.; Moersch, Jeffery E.; McSween, Harry Y.; et al. (October 2008). "Surface and crater-exposed lithologic units of the Isidis Basin as mapped by coanalysis of THEMIS and TES derived data products". Journal of Geophysical Research. 113 (E10). Bibcode:2008JGRE..11310001T. doi:10.1029/2007JE002988.
  3. ^ a b Hiesinger, Harald; Head, James W., III (August 2002). "Topography and morphology of the Argyre Basin, Mars: implications for its geologic and hydrologic history". Planetary and Space Science. 50 (10–11): 939–981. Bibcode:2002P&SS...50..939H. doi:10.1016/S0032-0633(02)00054-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b c 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.
  5. ^ a b Planetary Names: Search Results
  6. ^ USGS
  7. ^ USGS
  8. ^ McGovern, P. J.; White, O. L.; Schenk, P. M. (December 2021). "Tectonism and Enhanced Cryovolcanic Potential Around a Loaded Sputnik Planitia Basin, Pluto". Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 126. Bibcode:2021JGRE..12606964M. doi:10.1029/2021JE006964.
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