Smokey superlatives: widespread wildfire impacts seen from as far away as a million miles from Earth

The smokey conditions are so bad that one Canadian newspaper has labeled it a "smoke-pocalypse"
I was going to take a break from covering the wildfires blazing across large swaths of western North America — until I checked on remote sensing data this morning and saw the satellite imagery above and lower down in this post.In the the image above, captured by the Suomi-NPP satellite on Aug. 15, check out the thick, sandy-colored smudge of smoke blanketing a huge portion of