Largest impact features in the solar system


last updated 19 May 2002

Craters and other impact features larger than 100 km in diameter, listed by planet or moon from larger to smaller

Mercury

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Caloris Planitia1300
Beethoven20.8S123.6W643
Dostoevskij45.1S176.4W411
Tolstoj16.3S163.5W390
Goethe78.5N44.5W383
Shakespeare49.7N150.9W370
Raphael19.9S75.9W343
Homer1.2S36.2W314
Monet44.4N10.3W303
Vy-asa48.3N81.1W290
Van Eyck43.2N158.8W282
Haydn27.3S71.6W270
Mozart8.0N190.5W270
Renoir18.6S51.5W246
Pushkin66.3S22.4W231
Rodin21.1N18.2W229
V-almiki23.5S141.0W221
Wren24.3N35.2W221
Michelangelo45.0S109.1W216
Bach68.5S103.4W214
Mendes Pinto61.3S17.8W214
Vivaldi13.7N85.0W213
Sholem Aleichem50.4N87.7W200
Chekhov36.2S61.5W199
Hugo38.9N47.0W198
Smetana48.5S70.2W190
Stravinsky50.5N73.5W190
Strindberg53.7N135.3W190
Al-Hamadhani38.8N89.7W186
Matisse24.0S89.8W186
Milton26.2S174.8W186
Schubert43.4S54.3W185
Praxiteles27.3N59.2W182
Cervantes74.6S122.0W181
Durer21.9N119.0W180
Ma Chih-Yuan60.4S78.0W179
Rubens59.8N74.1W175
Petrarch30.6S26.2W171
Chao Meng-Fu87.3S134.2W167
Handel3.4N33.8W166
Chaikovskij7.4N50.4W165
S-otatsu49.1S18.1W165
Wang Meng8.8N103.8W165
Shelley47.8S127.8W164
Verdi64.7N168.6W163
Chuong Ch'uol46.4N116.2W162
Phidias8.7N149.3W160
Bramante47.5S61.8W159
Derzhavin44.9N35.3W159
Ibsen24.1S35.6W159
Imhotep18.1S37.3W159
Kurosawa53.4S21.8W159
Sayat-Nova28.4S122.1W158
Proust19.7N46.7W157
Melville21.5N10.1W154
Pigalle38.5S9.5W154
Lermontov15.2N48.1W152
Dar'io26.5S10.0W151
Kuan Han-Ch'ing29.4N52.4W151
Giotto12.0N55.8W150
Sophocles7.0S145.7W150
Mark Twain11.2S137.9W149
Sinan15.5N29.8W147
Bernini79.2S136.5W146
Delacroix44.7S129.0W146
Riemenschneider52.8S99.6W145
Sarmiento29.8S187.7W145
Sullivan16.9S86.3W145
Botticelli63.7N109.6W143
Boccaccio80.7S29.8W142
Rabelais61.0S62.4W141
Liang K'ai40.3S182.8W140
Lysippus0.8N132.5W140
Wagner67.4S114.0W140
Takayoshi37.5S163.1W139
Hiroshige13.4S26.7W138
Monteverdi63.8N77.3W138
Shevchenko53.8S46.5W137
Ustad Isa32.1S165.3W136
Africanus Horton51.5S41.2W135
Goya7.2S152.0W135
Brunelleschi9.1S22.2W134
Polygnotus0.3S68.4W133
Moli'ere15.6N16.9W132
Rublev15.1S156.8W132
S-ur D-as47.1S93.3W132
Murasaki12.6S30.2W130
Bello18.9S120.0W129
Boethius0.9S73.3W129
Chopin65.1S123.1W129
Scarlatti40.5N100.0W129
Vel'azquez37.5N53.7W129
Barma41.3S162.8W128
Ahmad Baba58.5N126.8W127
Mussorgskij32.8N96.5W125
Ghiberti48.4S80.2W123
Unkei31.9S62.7W123
Titian3.6S42.1W121
Alencar63.5S103.5W120
Hauptmann23.7S179.9W120
Li Po16.9N35.0W120
Neumann37.3S34.5W120
R-udaki4.0S51.1W120
Surikov37.1S124.6W120
Zeami3.1S147.2W120
Ictinus79.1S165.2W119
Ts'ai Wen-Chi22.8N22.2W119
Th-akur3.0S63.5W118
Carducci36.6S89.9W117
Abu Nuwas17.4N20.4W116
Turgenev65.7N135.0W116
Keats69.9S154.5W115
Mofolo37.7S28.2W114
Holbein35.6N28.9W113
Sei64.3S89.1W113
Bart'ok29.6S134.6W112
Khansa59.7S51.9W111
Chu Ta2.2N105.1W110
Coleridge55.9S66.7W110
Harunobu15.0N140.7W110
Mistral4.5N54.0W110
Ts'ao Chan13.4S142.0W110
Andal47.7S37.7W108
Hawthorne51.3S115.1W107
Hesiod58.5S35.0W107
Hitomaro16.2S15.8W107
K-alid-as-a18.1S179.2W107
Repin19.2S63.0W107
J'okai72.4N135.3W106
Machaut1.9S82.1W106
Byron8.5S32.7W105
Gluck37.3N18.1W105
Scopas81.1S172.9W105
Tyagaraja3.7N148.4W105
Van Dijck76.7N163.8W105
van Gogh76.5S134.9W104
Mahler20.0S18.7W103
Po Ya46.2S20.2W103
Al-Akhtal59.2N97.0W102
Dowland53.5S179.5W100
Eitoku22.1S156.9W100
Gainsborough36.1S183.3W100
Hals54.8S115.0W100
Lessing28.7S89.7W100
Mansur47.8N162.6W100
Mickiewicz23.6N103.1W100
Yeats9.2N34.6W100

Venus

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Mead12.5N57.2E270
Isabella29.8S204.2E175
Meitner55.6S321.6E149
Klenova78.1N104.5E141
Baker62.5N40.3E109
Stanton23.3S199.3E107
Cleopatra65.8N7.1E105
Rosa Bonheur9.7N288.8E104
Cochran51.9N143.4E100

Earth

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Sudbury46.6N81.2W200
Acraman32.0S135.5E160
Vredefort27.0S27.5E140
Manicouagan51.4N68.7W100
Popigai71.5N111.0E100

Moon

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Mare Imbrium32.8N15.6W1123
Mare Serenitatis28.0N17.5E707
Hertzsprung2.6N129.2W591
Apollo36.1S151.8W537
Korolev4.0S157.4W437
Mare Crisium17.0N59.1E418
Mare Humorum24.4S38.6W389
Birkhoff58.7N146.1W345
Mare Nectaris15.2S35.5E333
Mare Orientale19.4S92.8W327
Poincar'e56.7S163.6E319
Planck57.9S136.8E314
Mendeleev5.7N140.9E313
Lorentz32.6N95.3W312
Schrodinger75.0S132.4E312
Bailly66.5S69.1W287
Milne31.4S112.2E272
Gagarin20.2S149.2E265
Deslandres33.1S4.8W256
D'Alembert50.8N163.9E248
Clavius58.8S14.1W245
Leibnitz38.3S179.2E245
Harkhebi39.6N98.3E237
Van de Graaff27.4S172.2E233
Lagrange32.3S72.8W225
Pasteur11.9S104.6E224
Galois14.2S151.9W222
Campbell45.3N151.4E219
Bel'kovich61.1N90.2E214
Landau41.6N118.1W214
Schwarzschild70.1N121.2E212
Oppenheimer35.2S166.3W208
Schickard44.3S55.3W206
Janssen45.4W40.3E199
Einstein16.3N88.7W198
Mandel-shtam5.4N162.4E197
Poczobutt57.1N98.8W195
Maginus50.5S6.3W194
Zeeman75.2S133.6W190
Humboldt27.0S80.9E189
Petavius25.1S60.4E188
Vertregt19.8S171.1E187
Tsiolkovskiy21.2S128.9E185
Fabry42.9N100.7E184
Fermi19.3S122.6E183
Tsander6.2N149.3W181
Mach18.5N149.3W180
Schiller51.9S39.0W180
Von K'arm'an44.8S175.9E180
Chebyshev33.7S133.1W178
Gauss35.7N79.0E177
Rozhdestvenskiy85.2N155.4W177
Grimaldi5.5S68.3W172
Rowland57.4N162.5W171
Sommerfeld65.2N162.4W169
Hausen65.0S88.1W167
Hecataeus21.8S79.4E167
Heaviside10.4S167.1E165
J. Herschel62.0N42.0W165
Joliot25.8N93.1E164
Ptolemaeus9.3S1.9W164
Struve22.4N77.1W164
Riemann38.9N86.8E163
Compton55.3N103.8E162
Keeler10.2S161.9E160
Lippmann56.0S114.9W160
Roche42.3S136.5E160
Brouwer36.2S126.0W158
Longomontanus49.6S21.8W157
Ashbrook81.4S112.5W156
W. Bond65.4N4.5W156
Curie22.9S91.0E151
Fersman18.7N126.0W151
Hilbert17.9S108.2E151
Hedin2.0N76.5W150
Zwicky15.4S168.1E150
Drygalski79.3S84.9W149
Pavlov28.8S124.5E148
Fowler42.3N145.0W146
Antoniadi69.7S172.0W143
Babbage59.7N57.1W143
Jules Verne35.0S147.0E143
Boussingault70.2S54.6E142
Debye49.6N176.2W142
Pythagoras63.5N63.0W142
Blackett37.5S116.1W141
Richardson31.1N100.5E141
Avogadro63.1N164.9E139
Riccioli3.3S74.6W139
Balmer20.3S69.8E138
Hipparchus5.1S5.2E138
Mendel48.8S109.4W138
Chaplygin6.2S150.3E137
Neper8.5N84.6E137
Aitken16.8S173.4E135
Bolyai33.6S125.9E135
Furnerius36.0S60.6E135
Brianchon75.0N86.2W134
De La Rue59.1N52.3E134
Piazzi36.6S67.9W134
Hirayama6.1S93.5E132
Lyot49.8S84.5E132
Stebbins64.8N141.8W131
Vendelinus16.4S61.6E131
Meton73.6N18.8E130
Gamow65.3N145.3E129
Demonax77.9S60.8E128
Le Gentil74.6S75.7W128
Poynting18.1N133.4W128
Walther33.1S1.0E128
Langrenus8.9S61.1E127
Sklodowska18.2S95.5E127
Carnot52.3N143.5W126
Hommel54.7S33.8E126
Mee43.7S35.3W126
Rontgen33.0N91.4W126
Stofler41.1S6.0E126
Cleomedes27.7N56.0E125
Leeuwenhoek29.3S178.7W125
Messala39.2N60.5E125
Minnaert67.8S179.6E125
Stefan46.0N108.3W125
Xenophanes57.5N82.0W125
Paschen13.5S139.8W124
Endymion53.9N57.0E123
Michelson7.2N120.7W123
Volta53.9N84.4W123
Abel34.5S87.3E122
Phillips26.6S75.3E122
Szilard34.0N105.7E122
Levi-Civita23.7S143.4E121
Phocylides52.7S57.0W121
Darwin20.2S69.5W120
Wiener40.8N146.6E120
Klaproth69.8S26.0W119
Eddington21.3N72.2W118
Blancanus63.8S21.4W117
Thomson32.7S166.2E117
Letronne10.8S42.5W116
Nernst35.3N94.8W116
Gartner59.1N34.6E115
Hevelius2.2N67.6W115
Kovalevskaya30.8N129.6W115
Pascal74.6N70.3W115
Purbach25.5S2.3W115
Albategnius11.7S4.3E114
H. G. Wells40.7N122.8E114
Maurolycus42.0S14.0E114
Rayleigh29.3N89.6E114
Goldschmidt73.2N3.8W113
Minkowski56.5S146.0W113
Numerov70.7S160.7W113
Fracastorius21.5S33.2E112
Gilbert3.2S76.0E112
Emden63.3N177.3W111
Fizeau58.6S133.9W111
Moretus70.6S5.8W111
Doppler12.6S159.6W110
Fitzgerald27.5N171.7W110
Scheiner60.5S27.5W110
Seares73.5N145.8E110
Seyfert29.1N114.6E110
Theophilus11.4S26.4E110
Anderson15.8N171.1E109
Plaskett82.1N174.3E109
Plato51.6N9.4W109
Repsold51.3N78.6W109
Alphonsus13.7S3.2W108
Casatus72.8S29.5W108
Kastner6.8S78.5E108
Kondratyuk14.9S115.5E108
Regiomontanus28.3S1.0W108
Schuster4.2N146.5E108
Weyl17.5N120.2W108
Maxwell30.2N98.9E107
Buffon40.4S133.4W106
Fleming15.0N109.6E106
Kurchatov38.3N142.1E106
Lamb42.9S100.1E106
Lamont4.4N23.7E106
Lundmark39.7S152.5E106
Pitatus29.9S13.5W106
Wilhelm43.4S20.4W106
Barnard29.5S85.6E105
Orontius40.6S4.6W105
Alden23.6S110.8E104
Catharina18.1S23.4E104
Hermite86.0N89.9W104
Nansen80.9N95.3E104
Ostwald10.4N121.9E104
South58.0N50.8W104
Van der Waals43.9S119.9E104
Russell26.5N75.4W103
Scott82.1S48.5E103
Fridman12.6S126.0W102
Lebedev47.3S107.8E102
Tycho43.4S11.1W102
Amundsen84.3S85.6E101
Fra Mauro6.1S17.0W101
Gassendi17.6S40.1W101
Milankovivc77.2N168.8E101
Neujmin27.0S125.0E101
Lamarck22.9S69.8W100
Sternfeld19.6S141.2W100

Mars

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Hellas Planitia43.0S290.0W2200
Argyre Planitia50.0S44.0W800
Schiaparelli2.7S343.3W471
Huygens14.3S304.6W470
Cassini23.8N328.2W412
Antoniadi21.5N299.2W394
Tikhonravov13.5N324.2W386
Koval'sky30.2S141.5W309
Herschel14.9S230.3W305
Newton40.8S158.1W298
Copernicus49.2S169.2W294
de Vaucouleurs13.5S189.1W293
Schroeter1.9S304.4W292
Newcomb24.4S359.0W252
Flaugergues17.0S340.8W245
Lyot50.8N330.7W236
Secchi58.3S258.1W234
Kepler47.1S219.1W233
Galle51.2S30.9W230
Vinogradov20.2S37.7W224
Schmidt72.3S78.1W213
Mutch0.6N55.3W211
Kaiser46.6S340.9W207
Lowell52.3S81.4W203
Schoner20.1N309.5W195
Dawes9.3S322.0W191
Phillips66.7S45.1W190
Savich27.8S264.0W188
Ptolemaeus46.2S157.6W185
Green52.7S8.4W184
Molesworth27.7S210.9W181
Baldet23.0N294.6W180
Darwin57.3S19.5W178
Terby28.3S285.9W174
Flammarion25.4N311.8W173
Wallace52.9S249.4W173
Becquerel22.3N8.0W171
Henry10.9N336.7W171
Stoney69.8S138.6W171
Mariner35.1S164.5W170
Proctor48.0S330.5W168
Gusev14.7S184.6W166
Denning17.7S326.6W165
Bakhuysen23.3S344.4W161
Schaeberle24.7S309.9W160
Graff21.4S206.3W158
Janssen2.7N322.5W158
Dejnev25.5S164.8W156
Lohse43.7S16.8W156
Gale5.5S222.3W155
Trouvelot16.2N13.1W155
Arago10.2N330.2W154
Holden26.4S34.0W154
Lomonosov65.2N9.2W153
Hale36.1S36.5W149
Rayleigh75.6S240.9W149
Maggini28.0N350.6W143
Roddenberry49.8S4.6W141
Le Verrier38.0S342.9W140
Russell54.9S347.6W140
Hooke45.2S44.4W139
Wislicenus18.4S348.6W139
Mitchel67.7S283.9W138
Moreux42.1N315.6W138
Quenisset34.6N319.4W138
Galilaei5.7N27.0W137
Liu Hsin53.6S171.6W137
Liais75.4S252.8W132
Bernard23.6S154.3W131
Lyell70.1S15.6W131
Cerulli32.5N337.9W130
Arrhenius40.3S237.4W129
Campbell54.7S194.6W129
Knobel6.7S226.8W129
Muller26.0S232.3W129
Wirtz48.6S26.0W129
Byrd65.5S232.2W127
Comas Sola19.9S158.5W127
Slipher47.8S84.6W127
Barabashov47.7N68.8W126
Burroughs72.4S243.0W126
Gilbert68.2S273.7W126
Williams18.7S164.3W126
Arkhangelsky41.4S24.8W125
Barnard61.4S298.4W125
Madler10.8S357.3W125
Orson Welles0.2S45.9W125
Maraldi62.2S32.0W124
Oudemans10.0S91.9W124
Sklodowska33.7N2.9W124
Burton14.1S156.4W123
Holmes75.0S293.2W122
Vogel37.1S13.4W121
Chamberlin66.1S124.5W120
Wien10.8S220.4W120
Columbus29.8S116.1W119
Hadley19.5S203.1W119
Teisserenc de Bort0.4N315.0W119
Agassiz70.1S89.0W118
Fournier4.4S287.4W118
Masursky12.1N32.4W118
Milankovivc54.7N146.7W118
Millochau21.4S275.0W115
Niesten28.3S302.3W115
Pickering33.9S132.8W115
Radau17.1N4.8W115
Wright58.9S151.0W115
Crommelin5.1N10.2W114
Curie29.1N4.8W114
Very49.6S177.1W114
Charlier68.7S168.7W113
Pasteur19.4N335.5W113
Coblentz55.3S90.3W112
Helmholtz45.8S21.3W112
Krishtofovich48.5S262.8W112
Perepelkin52.8N64.6W112
Bond33.2S36.0W111
Lasswitz9.4S221.8W111
Rutherford19.2N10.7W111
Tikhov51.1S254.3W111
Boeddicker15.0S197.7W109
Main76.6S310.9W109
Maunder50.0S358.5W108
Rabe43.9S325.1W108
Bouguer18.7S332.8W107
Huxley63.0S259.2W107
Rudaux38.3N309.1W107
South77.1S338.0W107
Steno68.0S115.6W107
Tycho Brahe49.8S213.9W106
Hartwig39.0S16.0W105
Lau74.4S107.8W105
Li Fan47.2S153.2W105
Magelhaens32.7S174.8W105
Porter50.8S113.9W105
Mie48.5N220.4W104
Nicholson0.2N164.6W103
Wells60.2S237.9W103
Du Martheray5.5N266.5W102
Mellish72.8S24.0W102
Sharonov27.3N58.6W102
Da Vinci1.4N39.4W100
Peridier25.7N276.2W100

Europa

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Tyre31.7N147.0W148
Callanish16.0S333.4W100

Ganymede

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Galileo Regio
Memphis Facula15.5N132.5W350
Epigeus24.0N181.0W320
Punt26.1S242.2W228
Anzu62.9N61.6W200
Nidaba19.0N123.8W188
Ninki6.6S120.9W170
Serapis10.0S50.0W155
Tashmetum39.7S264.4W155
Zakar30.5N335.2W150
Gilgamesh61.7S123.9W145
Lagamal64.2N243.3W145
Atra-hasis22.3N254.0W140
Selket16.7N107.4W140
Enkidu27.9S328.4W121
Hershef47.1N268.8W120
Seker40.8S351.0W117
Irkalla31.1S114.7W116
Harakhtes36.0N99.8W115
Melkart10.0S185.8W111
Hedetet32.9S251.0W110
Osiris37.8S165.2W109
Tros11.0N31.1W109
Thoth42.4S146.0W107
Amon33.4N223.3W102

Callisto

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Valhalla15.9N56.6W2748
Asgard32.0N139.8W1347
Utgard45.0N134.0W610
Adlinda46.0S33.0W600
Heimdall64.0S357.0W345
Lofn57.0S24.0W200
Gloi49.0N245.7W112
Igaluk5.6N315.9W105
Tornarsuk28.7N128.6W104

Mimas

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Herschel2.9N109.5W130

Tethys

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Odyesseus30N130W400

Dione

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Amata7.7N285.3W231
Aeneas26.1N46.3W166
Dido23.7S18.5W118

Hyperion

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
140

Iapetus

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Roland73.3N25.2W144
Marsilion39.2N176.1W136
Milon67.9N270.2W119
Oliver62.5N200.8W113
Ogier42.5N275.1W100

Umbriel

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Wokolo30.0S1.8E208
Malingee22.9S13.9E164
Wunda7.9S273.6E131

Titania

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Gertrude15.8S287.1E326
Ursula12.4S45.2E135
Mopsa11.9S302.2E101
Calphurnia42.4S291.4E100

Oberon

namelatitudelongitudediameter (km)
Hamlet46.1S44.4E206
MacBeth58.4S112.5E203
Romeo28.7S89.4E159
Lear5.4S31.5E126
Falstaff22.1S19.0E124
Coriolanus11.4S345.2E120
Othello66.0S42.9E114

Source: United States Geological Survey, "Planetary Nomenclature" home page [http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html], 2001.


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