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. The ratio column compares the crater diameter with the diameter of the impacted celestial body. The maximum crater diameter is 628% of the body diameter (the circumference along a great circle).
Body | Crater | Crater diameter | Body diameter | Ratio | class=unsortable | Images | class=unsortable | Notes |
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Mercury | Caloris | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 4,880 km | 32% | ||||
Rembrandt | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 15% | ||||||
Venus | Mead | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 12,100 km | 2% | ||||
Earth | Vredefort | 250–300 km | 12,740 km | 2% | ||||
Chicxulub crater | NaN182 | 1.4% | Cause or contributor of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event | |||||
Sudbury Basin | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 1% | ||||||
Moon (moon of Earth) | Procellarum | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 3,470 km | 86% | Not confirmed as an impact basin. | |||
South Pole–Aitken basin | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 70% | ||||||
Imbrium | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 33% | ||||||
Mars | North Polar Basin | 10,600 × 8,500 km | 6,780 km | 125–155% | Not confirmed as an impact basin | |||
Utopia | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 50% | Largest confirmed impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System | |||||
Hellas | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 34% | Largest visible crater in the Solar System | |||||
Isidis | ~NaNmilesNaNmiles | 28% | Heavily degraded to the northeast | |||||
Argyre | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 25.1% | May have an outer ring 2750 km in diameter | |||||
Vesta (asteroid) | Rheasilvia | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 529 km (569 km) | 90%[1] | ||||
Veneneia | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 70% | Partially obscured by Rheasilvia | |||||
(dwarf planet) | Kerwan | NaNmilesNaNmiles[2] | 952 km | 30% | Faint shallow crater, below the center of this image. | |||
Yalode | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 28% | ||||||
Hygiea (asteroid) | Serpens | 434 ± 14 km | 40% | |||||
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter) | Epigeus | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 5,270 km | 6.5% | ||||
Callisto (moon of Jupiter) | Valhalla | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 4,820 km | 7.5% | ||||
Heimdall | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 4% | (no good images have been taken) | |||||
Mimas (moon of Saturn) | Herschel | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 396 km | 35% | ||||
Tethys (moon of Saturn) | Odysseus | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 1,060 km | 42% | ||||
Dione (moon of Saturn) | Evander | NaNmilesNaNmiles[3] | 1,123 km | 34% | ||||
Rhea (moon of Saturn) | Mamaldi | NaNmilesNaNmiles[4] | 1,530 km | 31% | ||||
Tirawa | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 24% | ||||||
Titan (moon of Saturn) | Menrva | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 5,150 km | 7.5% | ||||
Iapetus (moon of Saturn) | Turgis | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 1,470 km | 40% | ||||
Engelier | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 34% | ||||||
Gerin | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 30% | Gerin is overlain by Engelier | |||||
Falsaron | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 29% | ||||||
Titania (moon of Uranus) | Gertrude | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 1,580 km | 21% | Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters. | |||
Pluto (dwarf planet) | Sputnik Planitia basin | ca. 1,400 × 1,200 km average: ~1,300 km | 2,377 km | 54.7% | Partially infilled by convecting Nitrogen ice, heavily eroded | |||
Burney | NaNmilesNaNmiles | 12.5% | Heavily degraded, difficult to see | |||||
Charon (moon of Pluto) | Dorothy | ca. NaNmilesNaNmiles | 1,207 km | 21% | Crater at upper right overlapping Mordor Macula |