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 | 4,880 km | 32% | |||
Mercury | Rembrandt | 4,880 km | 15% | |||
Venus | Mead | 12,100 km | 2% | |||
Earth | Vredefort | 250–300 km | 12,740 km | 2% | ||
Earth | Sudbury Basin | 12,740 km | 2% | |||
Earth | Chicxulub crater | 12,740 km | 1.4% | Cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event | ||
Moon | Procellarum | 3,470 km | 86% | Not confirmed as an impact basin. | ||
Moon | South Pole–Aitken basin | 3,470 km | 70% | |||
Moon | Imbrium | 3,470 km | 33% | |||
Mars | North Polar Basin | 10,600 × 8,500 km | 6,780 km | 125–155% | Not confirmed as an impact basin | |
Mars | Utopia | 6,780 km | 50% | Largest confirmed impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System | ||
Mars | Hellas | 6,780 km | 34% | Largest visible crater in the Solar System | ||
Vesta | Rheasilvia | 529 km | 90% | |||
Vesta | Veneneia | 529 km | 70% | Partially obscured by Rheasilvia | ||
Kerwan | 952 km | 30% | Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image. | |||
Yalode | 952 km | 28% | ||||
Hygiea | Serpens | 434 ± 14 km | 40% | |||
Ganymede | Epigeus | 5,270 km | 6.5% | |||
Callisto | Valhalla | 4,820 km | 7.5% | |||
Callisto | Heimdall | 4,820 km | 4% | |||
Mimas | Herschel | 396 km | 35% | |||
Tethys | Odysseus | 1,060 km | 42% | |||
Dione | Evander | 1,123 km | 34% | |||
Rhea | Mamaldi | 1,530 km | 31% | |||
Rhea | Tirawa | 1,530 km | 24% | |||
Titan | Menrva | 5,150 km | 7.5% | |||
Iapetus | Turgis | 1,470 km | 40% | |||
Iapetus | Engelier | 1,470 km | 34% | |||
Iapetus | Gerin | 1,470 km | 30% | Gerin is overlain by Engelier | ||
Iapetus | Falsaron | 1,470 km | 29% | |||
Titania | Gertrude | 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% | ||
Pluto | unnamed crater | 2,370 km | 19% | Upper right of image, difficult to see | ||
Charon | Mordor Macula | ca. | 1,207 km | 40% | Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin. | |
Charon | Dorothy | ca. | 1,207 km | 21% | Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula |