Radio glitch hinders Mars lander mission (AFP)

This picture released by NASA shows one of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's feet planted on the Martian surface. A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.(AFP/NASA) AFP - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.