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 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%
	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 (asteroid)	Rheasilvia	505 km (310 mi)	529 km (569 km)[1]	90%[1]
	Veneneia	395 km (250 mi)		70%[1]		Partially obscured by Rheasilvia
Ceres (asteroid)	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%
Hygiea (asteroid)	Serpens	180±15	434 ± 14 km	40%
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter)	Epigeus	343 km (213 mi)	5,270 km	6.5%
	unnamed crater	15,600 km (9,693 mi)		296%		Discovery announced on 7 August 2020[3]
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)[4]	1,123 km	34%
Rhea (moon of Saturn)	Mamaldi	480 km (300 mi)[5]	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 Macula	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

References

1. 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.
4. USGS
5. USGS

See also

• List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System
• List of largest rifts and valleys in the Solar System
• List of tallest mountains in the Solar System