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.

Body Crater Diameter Diameter of
parent body		 Ratio Notes
Mercury Caloris 1,550 km (963 mi) 4,880 km 32% 100px
Rembrandt 715 km (444 mi) 15% Rembrandt crater mosaic.jpg
Venus Mead 280 km (170 mi) 12,100 km 2% 100px
Earth Vredefort 250–300 km (160–190 mi) 12,740 km 2% Vredefort Dome STS51I-33-56AA.jpg
Sudbury Basin 250 km (160 mi) 2% Sudbury Wanapitei WorldWind.jpg
Chicxulub crater 182 km (113 mi) 1.4% Yucatan chix crater.jpg Cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Moon
(moon of Earth)		 Procellarum 3,000 km (2,000 mi) 3,470 km 86% PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg Not confirmed as an impact basin.
South Pole–Aitken basin 2,500 km (1,600 mi) 70% Aitken Kagu big.jpg
Imbrium 1,145 km (711 mi) 33% Imbrium location.jpg
Mars North Polar Basin 10,600 × 8,500 km (6,550 × 5,250 mi) 6,780 km 125–155% MarsTopoMap-PIA02031 modest.jpg Not confirmed as an impact basin
Utopia 3,300 km (2,100 mi) 50% 100px Largest confirmed impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System
Hellas 2,300 km (1,400 mi) 34% Hellas Planitia by the Viking orbiters.jpg Largest visible crater in the Solar System
Vesta Rheasilvia 505 km (310 mi) 529 km (569 km)[1] 90%[1] 100px <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
See also: List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
Veneneia 395 km (250 mi) 70%[1] 100px Partially obscured by Rheasilvia
Ceres Kerwan 284 km (180 mi)[2] 952 km 30% PIA19596-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-2ndMappingOrbit-image28-20150625.jpg Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image.
Yalode 271 km (170 mi)[2] 28% Urvara and Yalode craters.jpg
Ganymede
(moon of Jupiter)		 Epigeus 343 km (213 mi) 5,270 km 6.5% 100px
Callisto
(moon of Jupiter)		 Valhalla 360 km (224 mi) 4,820 km 7.5% Valhalla crater on Callisto.jpg
Heimdall 210 km (130 mi) 4% (no good images have been taken)
Mimas
(moon of Saturn)		 Herschel 139 km (86 mi) 396 km 35% Mimas moon.jpg See also List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
Tethys
(moon of Saturn)		 Odysseus 445 km (277 mi) 1,060 km 42% 100px
Dione
(moon of Saturn)		 Evander 350 km (220 mi)[3] 1,023 km 34% Evander crater, Dione.jpg
Rhea
(moon of Saturn)		 Mamaldi 480 km (300 mi)[4] 1,530 km 31% PIA07763 Rhea full globe5.jpg
Tirawa 360 km (220 mi) 24% PIA09819 Tirawa basin.jpg
Titan
(moon of Saturn)		 Menrva 392 km (244 mi) 5,150 km 7.5% Titancrater.jpg
Iapetus
(moon of Saturn)		 Turgis 580 km (360 mi) 1,470 km 40% 100px
Engelier 504 km (313 mi) 34% Iapetus as seen by the Cassini probe - 20071008.jpg
Gerin 445 km (277 mi) 30% 100px Gerin is overlain by Engelier
Falsaron 424 km (263 mi) 29% Iapetusnorth.jpg
Titania
(moon of Uranus)		 Gertrude 326 km (203 mi) 1,580 km 21% PIA00039 Titania.jpg Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters.
Pluto Sputnik basin? ca. 1,050×800 km 2,370 km 34–44% 100px
unnamed crater 450 km (280 mi) 19% Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg Upper right of image, difficult to see
Charon
(moon of Pluto)		 Mordor ca. 475 km (295 mi) 1,207 km 40% Charon by New Horizons on 13 July 2015.png Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin.
unnamed crater ca. 150 km (93 mi) 12% Charon-Neutral-Bright-Release.jpg Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 [1]
  3. ↑ USGS
  4. ↑ USGS

See also

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