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July 31, 2020
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 | Life On Mars? On Thursday, NASA launched its fifth rover to Mars. And with it, started a mission that may provide a conclusive answer to the question: Has there ever been life on the red planet? The rover is called Perseverance, and it's modeled after the Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012. Like a new-model-year car, Perseverance comes with many upgrades: It can travel faster, farther, and around more obstacles on the Martian surface than Curiosity can. It has improved autonomous driving and more resilient wheels. It has a drone helicopter aboard (called Ingenuity), which will become the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Previous rover missions have been launched in pursuit of the question: Was Mars ever hospitable to life? They found that it was, with water once on the surface and organic chemicals in the environment. This endeavor is going to go for the ultimate question: Can it find evidence of actual microbial life, frozen in time on the Martian surface? Learn more and check out these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Donoghue earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin. She moved to England, and in 1997 received a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. At the age of 23, she began earning a living as a writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. Check out her books here. |
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 | Eisner Awards The 32nd Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards ceremony, which honors the best comics and graphic novels of the previous year, was pre-recorded and held as part of Comic-Con@Home, a virtual recreation of the in-person San Diego Comic-Con International, which was canceled this year due to the pandemic. Check out this year's winners |
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| The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.-Coretta Scott King
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