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===Largest named craters in the Solar System=== [[File:PIA09819 Tirawa basin.jpg|thumb|[[Tirawa (crater)|Tirawa crater]] straddling the [[terminator (solar)|terminator]] on [[Rhea (moon)|Rhea]], lower right.]] {{main|List of largest craters in the Solar System}} # [[North Polar Basin (Mars)|North Polar Basin/Borealis Basin]] (disputed) β Mars β Diameter: 10,600 km # [[South Pole-Aitken basin]] β Moon β Diameter: 2,500 km # [[Hellas Basin]] β Mars β Diameter: 2,100 km <!-- # "[[Skinakas Basin]]" β Mercury β Diameter: ~1,600 km --> # [[Caloris Basin]] β Mercury β Diameter: 1,550 km # [[Sputnik Planitia]] β Pluto β Diameter: 1,300 km # [[Mare Imbrium|Imbrium Basin]] β Moon β Diameter: 1,100 km # [[Isidis Planitia]] β Mars β Diameter: 1,100 km # [[Mare Tranquilitatis]] β Moon β Diameter: 870 km # [[Argyre Planitia]] β Mars β Diameter: 800 km # [[Rembrandt (crater)|Rembrandt]] β Mercury β Diameter: 715 km # [[Mare Serenitatis|Serenitatis Basin]] β Moon β Diameter: 700 km # [[Mare Nubium]] β Moon β Diameter: 700 km # [[Beethoven (crater)|Beethoven]] β Mercury β Diameter: 625 km # [[Valhalla (crater)|Valhalla]] β Callisto β Diameter: 600 km, with rings to 4,000 km diameter # [[Hertzsprung (crater)|Hertzsprung]] β Moon β Diameter: 590 km # [[Turgis (crater)|Turgis]] β Iapetus β Diameter: 580 km # [[Apollo (crater)|Apollo]] β Moon β Diameter: 540 km # [[Engelier (crater)|Engelier]] β Iapetus β Diameter: 504 km # [[Mamaldi (crater)|Mamaldi]] β Rhea β Diameter: 480 km # [[Huygens (crater)|Huygens]] β Mars β Diameter: 470 km # [[Schiaparelli (Martian crater)|Schiaparelli]] β Mars β Diameter: 470 km # [[Rheasilvia]] β 4 Vesta β Diameter: 460 km # [[Gerin (crater)|Gerin]] β Iapetus β Diameter: 445 km # [[Odysseus (crater)|Odysseus]] β Tethys β Diameter: 445 km # [[Korolev (lunar crater)|Korolev]] β Moon β Diameter: 430 km # [[Falsaron (crater)|Falsaron]] β Iapetus β Diameter: 424 km # [[Dostoevskij (crater)|Dostoevskij]] β Mercury β Diameter: 400 km # [[Menrva (crater)|Menrva]] β Titan β Diameter: 392 km # [[Tolstoj (crater)|Tolstoj]] β Mercury β Diameter: 390 km # [[Goethe (crater)|Goethe]] β Mercury β Diameter: 380 km # [[Malprimis (crater)|Malprimis]] β Iapetus β Diameter: 377 km # [[Tirawa (crater)|Tirawa]] β Rhea β Diameter: 360 km # [[Mare Orientale|Orientale Basin]] β Moon β Diameter: 350 km, with rings to 930 km diameter # [[Evander (crater)|Evander]] β Dione β Diameter: 350 km # [[Epigeus (crater)|Epigeus]] β Ganymede β Diameter: 343 km # [[Gertrude (crater)|Gertrude]] β Titania β Diameter: 326 km # [[Telemus (crater)|Telemus]] β Tethys β Diameter: 320 km # [[Asgard (crater)|Asgard]] β Callisto β Diameter: 300 km, with rings to 1,400 km diameter # [[Vredefort impact structure]] β Earth β Diameter: 300 km # [[Burney (crater)|Burney]] β Pluto β Diameter: 296 km There are approximately twelve more impact craters/basins larger than 300 km on the Moon, five on Mercury, and four on Mars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/|title=Planetary Names: Welcome|website=planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov}}</ref> Large basins, some unnamed but mostly smaller than 300 km, can also be found on Saturn's moons Dione, Rhea and Iapetus.
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