This film takes the viewer on a journey across the southern highlands to the Flaugergues Crater, located in the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle (HMC-20). It starts at Scylla and Charybdis Scopuli, heading northwards to the eastern side of Flaugergues Crater and then circling it counterclockwise to its western rim. The crater is about 245 km in diameter and was named after french astronomer Honoré Flaugergues (1755-1835). The surrounding southern highlands consist of densely cratered, rugged terrain, which covers much of the equatorial to southern latitudes of Mars.

Scylla Scopulus is an irregular scarp facing eastwards, while Charybdis Scopulus, located roughly parallel about 75 km to the east of Scylla, faces westwards. The two Scopuli enclose a linear depression that lies up to 1000 m below their rim. While passing east of Bakhuysen Crater, we fly over the presumed limit of its eastern continuous ejecta, emplaced through ballistic sedimentation and radial flow, that reaches out until Charybdis Scopulus. Bakhuysen Crater is a Late Noachian to Early Hesperian 150 km-diameter impact structure.

We approach Flaugergues Crater from the southeast. Here, half of the crater floor consists of a rugged terrain raising up to 1000 m which is intersected by a small valley, and features a small, eroded rocky area which seems to have been shaped by aeolian processes. In contrast, the crater’s northern half is comprised of a flat lobate lava plain with wrinkled ridges. The elevated terrain probably has been emplaced from the outside after the crater’s formation.