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	Notes
Mercury	Caloris	1,550 km (963 mi)	4880 km	32%
Mercury	Rembrandt	715 km (444 mi)	4880 km	15%
Venus	Mead	280 km (170 mi)	12100 km	2%
Earth	Vredefort	250–300 km (160–190 mi)	12740 km	2%
	Sudbury Basin	250 km (160 mi)		2%
	Chicxulub crater	182 km (113 mi)		1.4%	Cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Luna (moon of Earth)	Procellarum	3,000 km (2,000 mi)	3470 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)	6780 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]	See also: List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
Vesta (asteroid)	Veneneia	395 km (250 mi)	529 km (569 km)^[1]	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.
Ceres (asteroid)	Yalode	271 km (170 mi)^[2]	952 km	28%
Hygiea (asteroid)	Serpens	180±15	434 ± 14 km	40%
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter)	Epigeus	343 km (213 mi)	5270 km	6.5%
Callisto (moon of Jupiter)	Valhalla	360 km (224 mi)	4820 km	7.5%
Callisto (moon of Jupiter)	Heimdall	210 km (130 mi)	4820 km	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)	1060 km	42%
Dione (moon of Saturn)	Evander	350 km (220 mi)^[3]	1123 km	34%
Rhea (moon of Saturn)	Mamaldi	480 km (300 mi)^[4]	1530 km	31%
Rhea (moon of Saturn)	Tirawa	360 km (220 mi)	1530 km	24%
Titan (moon of Saturn)	Menrva	392 km (244 mi)	5150 km	7.5%
Iapetus (moon of Saturn)	Turgis	580 km (360 mi)	1470 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)	1580 km	21%	Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters.
Pluto	Sputnik basin	ca. 1,300 × 900 km	2370 km	34–44%
Pluto	unnamed crater	450 km (280 mi)	2370 km	19%	Upper right of image, difficult to see
Charon (moon of Pluto)	Mordor Macula	ca. 475 km (295 mi)	1207 km	40%	Dark region at north pole. Not confirmed as an impact basin.
Charon (moon of Pluto)	Dorothy	ca. 261 km (162 mi)	1207 km	21%	Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula

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^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b Planetary Names: Search Results
^ USGS
^ USGS

[Vesta-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.

[Ceres-2] Planetary Names: Search Results

[3] USGS

[4] USGS

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List of largest craters in the Solar System

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