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i was reading the article "See which songs Curiosity has been waking up to each morning":

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nasa-reveals-mars-rovers-morning-mix-20120816

and just noticed that one of NASA's previous rovers, opportunity, had some cure on its wake up playlist (aptly chosen for the day when the rover took its first MI image (MI= microscopic imager)):

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/MER%20Soundtrack.html

10  the cure: pictures of you  (notes: first MI image)

The Mars rover engineering team works on Mars time. A martian day, also called a "sol", is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Each martian morning as the rover wakes up they play a song related to the events of the upcoming sol. Occasionally a second or third song is played during the sol in addition to the wakeup song. This is a tradition from the manned space program. Unfortunately robotic probes are not yet capable of feeling inspiration from music, but Mission Control is.