LandSat Data Continuity Mission Launches!

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, February's full moon is often called the Full Snow Moon since it is often this month when the heaviest snows fall in the northern hemisphere.

We'd like to congratulate the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (Landsat 8) team for the successful launch of LDCM earlier this month. LDCM extends the highly successfuly Landsat series, which  recently celebrated its 40th year of continuous measurement of the Earth's surface. We anxiously await the exciting new imagery it will acquire!

Featured this month in our Environmental Awareness Theme, Into the Mind of Visionary Artist Greg Mort is a fascinating article that probes the perspective and considers the inspiration behind the work of the famed artist. On the topic of Themes, we are pleased to announce our Call for Papers on Wildfires entitled 'Wildfires: From Risk Assessment to Recovery". Its Guest Editors are Earthzine's Senior Advisor, Christoph Aubrecht, Earthzine's Disasters GE,  Sergio Freire and Domingos Xavier Viegas from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Please don't miss our second article in a series on Earthcube. The article takes a look at EarthCube's cyber-infrastructure that makes large scientific datasets available to scientists in an easy way.

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Daniel McInerney,
Deputy Editor

Into the Mind of Visionary Artist Greg Mort

Greg Mort, of Maryland, brings an astronomer’s eye to the art of painting. His work often features apples, conch shells, ribbons and lace juxtaposed with images of the universe amidst natural settings seen on Earth.Enter the article

NASA World Wind Europe Challenge: Inspiring Solutions for a More Sustainable World

The Europe Challenge aims to inspire and challenge Europe's best and brightest. Applications developed by teams taking on the challenge have to use the open-source NASA World Wind technology, a 3D visualization of the globe that links to various spatial data layers.

New Web-based Application to Compare Global Carbon Maps

A screenshot of the Global Carbon Map comparison tool.A researcher at the University of Edinburgh leads the development of an interactive Web-based application to compare global carbon map products.

Call for Papers – Wildfires: From Risk Assessment to Recovery

Earthzine is soliciting articles from all regions of the globe for its third quarter 2013 theme on Wildfires. We seek articles that use in situ, airborne, and spaceborne observations that contribute to our understanding of wildfires across all scales, from their causes to consequences, including use in planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery from these hazards.