Turn that frown upside down!

Navigation camera mosaic sol 111 showing Yellowknife bay (NASA/JPL)

That's what Curiosity tweeted just now after they announced in an update on their website that says nothing fantastic has been found  and that the news update that will be given on December 3 this year at the at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco will provide only updates on the mission's recent investigations of drift material with its full array of science tools.

But we shouldn't be too disappointed. After all, Gale is new territory and we are in uncharted waters as far as Mars exploration goes. Mars has an extremely well established tenacity for surprises and with Curiosity's whopping science package we should expect lots of future surprises that will revolutionise our understanding of the red planet and our own world.