Following are the largest craters on various worlds of the Solar System.
World | Crater | Diameter | Diameter of parent body |
Ratio | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mercury | Caloris Basin | 1,550 km (963 mi) | 4880 | 32% | ||
Rembrandt | 715 km (444 mi) | 15% | ||||
Venus | Mead | 280 km (170 mi) | 12,100 | 2% | ||
Earth | Vredefort | (160–190 mi) | 250–300 km12,740 | 2% | ||
Moon | South Pole – Aitken basin | 2,500 km (1,600 mi) | 3470 | 70% | ||
Mare Imbrium | 1,145 km (711 mi) | 33% | ||||
Mars | North Polar Basin | (6,550 × 5,250 mi) | 10,600 × 8,500 km6780 | 140% | Not confirmed as an impact basin | |
Hellas Planitia | 2,300 km (1,400 mi) | 34% | Largest visible crater in the Solar system | |||
Vesta | Rheasilvia | 460 km (290 mi) | 529 | 87% | See also List of tallest mountains in the Solar System | |
pre-Rheasilvia basin | 400 km (250 mi) | 75% | ||||
Ganymede (Jupiter) | Epigeus | 343 km (213 mi) | 5270 | 6½% | ||
Callisto (Jupiter) | Valhalla | 360 km (224 mi) | 4820 | 7½% | ||
Heimdall | 210 km (130 mi) | 4% | ||||
Mimas (Saturn) | Herschel | 139 km (86 mi) | 396 | 35% | See also List of tallest mountains in the Solar System | |
Tethys (Saturn) | Odysseus | 445 km (277 mi) | 1060 | 42% | ||
Dione (Saturn) | Evander | [1] | 350 km (220 mi)1023 | 34% | ||
Rhea (Saturn) | Mamaldi | [2] | 480 km (300 mi)1530 | 31% | ||
Tirawa | 360 km (220 mi) | 24% | ||||
Titan (Saturn) | Menrva | 392 km (244 mi) | 5150 | 7½% | ||
Iapetus (Saturn) | Turgis | 580 km (360 mi) | 1470 | 39% | ||
Engelier | 504 km (313 mi) | 34% | ||||
Gerin | 445 km (277 mi) | 30% | Gerin is overlain by Engelier | |||
Falsaron | 424 km (263 mi) | 29% | ||||
Titania (Uranus) | Gertrude | 326 km (203 mi) | 1580 | 21% | Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters. |