Post your biggest craters

[Alex_Fighter]

Hello.

Since Oddyssey came out many special planetary features are to be re-discovered. Most of them would go unnoticed if The Galactic Mapping Project didn't exist. Since I like these kind of things to make it to the listing of the Project and EDSM, I feel tempted to submit some things, to later find even on my own I find the same kind of thing just bigger or better. But for something to be there it has to be truly remarkable. To save hassle for the good people of GMP of discarding things that later may happen to be irrelevant, I thought that maybe we could start this thread to find a specific planetary feature and after some time and enough candidates we can compare, the most special ones could be submitted by their discoverers.

In this case I'm looking for big craters (of course, in landable planets, such is our limitation to make measurements).

I think it's worth to submit one impact crater:
A) Out of The Bubble.
B) Out of the Solar System.

The interesting features would be:

• Diameter. A navigation tool such as E.D.I.S.O.N. can help on this. Place yourself at the border, with a tangential heading. Save your position, turn 90 degrees and traverse the crater to the other side (if you do it well, you should pass through the center. When you arrive to the other side, the distance to your previous position is the diameter.
• Depth. As you traverse the crater, keep an eye on your surface altitude. To be fair (since the base terrain may be inclined) don't fly with your ship leveled. Start near the ground on one side and fly aiming to the surface of the border in the other side.

If you survey a bigger or deeper crater that the ones already posted, add it to the thread. Share the name of the planet of keep it to yourself if you want. The important thing is that you submit it to GMP if, after some time we'd have to weigh (maybe when Oddyssey gets to consoles or after some more time), if it happens to be the record. Explourists will be grateful.

Thanks.

 

[Alex_Fighter]

This one in the Galactic Center (Eoch Bli EA-R c7-6575 6 | -36.21, -144.07) is:

• 306km wide
• 14km deep.

Please tell me you found them bigger. Amaze us all.

 

[Orvidius]

I was half expecting this thread to be about embarrassing lithobraking maneuvers. But this is much better! I used to find some pretty large craters in the Horizons era, and so I'm curious how large they can get in Odyssey.

 

[Hedy]

I was half expecting this thread to be about embarrassing lithobraking maneuvers. But this is much better! I used to find some pretty large craters in the Horizons era, and so I'm curious how large they can get in Odyssey.

So was I. I've involuntarily completed the, boost, pancake, swear (lots), rebuy maneuver far too often.

I will keep an eye open for large craters as I am off on a trip. Sitting around awaiting further updates has become tedious.

 

[HRDiagram]

On a side note, are there any complex craters (i.e. with a central peak) in Odyssey? I don't think I have come across any, so far.
I've seen some apparently huge craters, shame I didn't measure them... will keep an eye out!

 

[Alex_Fighter]

On a side note, are there any complex craters (i.e. with a central peak) in Odyssey?

I haven't seen any.

 

[Pirin]

I am so frustrated by Odyssey and the direction this game is going in general. The best FD can offer to explorers is to scan space mushrooms. This is their best after 7 years of development.
So, thank you for this thread, OP. You just gave me a reason to come back and play again. As i first step i will go back and try to measure the crater on my Death Star planet. I only took couple of screenshots, didnt know how to measure such things. Probably it wouldnt be larger than the one OP posted, but still.

Spoiler

 

[Pirin]

Update: either these large craters are common in Odyssey or i got lucky. After few hours of crater hunting found Syralie ZP-P e5-17 B 1. It is a fairly large planet with several massive craters. Measured two of them: 595 and 640km. For both of them depth in the center was about 27-29km.
There were few others which looked even more promising but couldnt find them. Apparently they are on the dark side (a tidally locked planet) where is pitch dark.

 

[Alex_Fighter]

Great! What I suspect is that since now the planetary features are mostly prefabricated, every crater of those that people find are just the same in a different scale. Just compare the one I posted with the first of yours: both dimension seem to be slightly below double.

 

[HRDiagram]

While scanning space mushroom inside a crater, I noticed that the walls appeared quite steep and massive, so I decided to do a run across it using Edison.

• 362km wide
• 19.6km deep

The fact that the planet and its twin orbit a binary White dwarf-L class star made the scene better, considering that the surface itself was one of the least exciting I've seen so far.

Edit: this is in the Norma Arm, about 16k ly from Sol, and very close to the Huge Ring tourist beacon.

 

[Rudi Raumkraut]

Great! What I suspect is that since now the planetary features are mostly prefabricated, every crater of those that people find are just the same in a different scale. Just compare the one I posted with the first of yours: both dimension seem to be slightly below double.

Makes categorizing this one crater much simpler.

 

[HRDiagram]

On my way back to the bubble, I've found a monster crater on NGC 6250 Sector OU-M a8-1 4.

• 997km diameter
• 18km deep (very shallow)

Took ages to cross it as my ship is not made for speed!

Screenshots will follow.

I have to say, craters in Odyssey look very boring, especially their ray systems, and also the lack of complex craters makes them a plain downgrade of Horizons, in my opinion. In addition, it looks like the major craters on a planet are generally all of the same size, with the biggest having a diameter that's always roughly 10% of the planet's radius.

 

[varonica]

I have to say, craters in Odyssey look very boring, especially their ray systems, and also the lack of complex craters makes them a plain downgrade of Horizons, in my opinion. In addition, it looks like the major craters on a planet are generally all of the same size, with the biggest having a diameter that's always roughly 10% of the planet's radius.

That sounds about right. Anything much larger than that would end up breaking through the crust of a planet with magma and releasing a flood of lava that would basically end up looking like the mares on the moon, or the Aitkin Basin, the largest impact site in the moon. It's pretty hard to tell, unless it's actually pointed out, that it's actually a crater. Smaller bodies that are no longer active would likely have large areas of the surface turned molten, again an effect that would hide the fact of the impact. Very large impacts would be much harder to detect than smaller ones simply because of the amount of energy of the impacting object causing widespread damage effects that act to hide the impact.

 

[varonica]

Having written that previous post it got me thinking, is the stellar forge modeling things like that? So I had a poke around the planets in the system I am currently in and came across this one, the feature marked by the red cross could very well be the result of a larger impact that created a lava lake and caused the crater rim to collapse in and blend with the surrounding landscape;