List of craters on Mars

Catalog

Martian craters are listed alphabetically on the following partial lists:

• List of craters on Mars: A–G
• List of craters on Mars: H–N
• List of craters on Mars: O–Z

Names are grouped into tables for each letter of the alphabet, containing the crater's name (linked if article exists), coordinates, diameter in kilometers, year of official name adoption (approval), the eponym ("named after") and a direct reference to the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.

Statistics

As of 2017, Martian craters account for 21% of all 5,211 named craters in the Solar System. Apart from the Moon, no other body has as many named craters as Mars. Other, non-planetary bodies with numerous named craters include Callisto (141), Ganymede (131), Rhea (128), Vesta (90), Ceres (90), Dione (73), Iapetus (58), Enceladus (53), Tethys (50) and Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System. The total number of craters on Mars greater than 1 kilometre in diameter is approximately 385,000, with 21% of those (~85,000) being over 3 kilometers in diameter. The number of craters on Mars over 25 metres in diameter is suggested to be approximately 90 million.

Largest craters

Some of the largest craters on Mars remain unnamed. Diameters differ depending on source data. The largest confirmed impact basins on Mars are Utopia (buried, estimated diameter 3,300 km) Hellas (2,300 km), Argyre ( 1,800 km) and Isidis (1,500 km).

Notes

• Planetary Names: Search Results, International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) at Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (access date June 2017).
  • only this data-set provides an approval date, eponym and WGSPN-link to an object webpage;
• Mars Crater Database Search, Robbins, S.J., and B.M. Hynek (2012). A New Global Database of Mars Impact Craters ≥1 km: 1. Database Creation, Properties, and Parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets
  • Elliptical measurements (used to compute the approx. area), and the details on unnamed craters are only available in this data-set.}}

Example crater

References

References

1. (2021-08-02). "Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI".
2. (2021-11-03). "The Tharsis mantle source of depleted shergottites revealed by 90 million impact craters". Nature Communications.
3. "Nomenclature Search Results: Mars > Crater, Craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature – International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).
4. "Categories for Naming Features on Planets and Satellites". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature – International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).