Watch a plane fly through San Francisco's orange, dystopian skies

The dystopia is colored orange. The profoundly dense smoke layer over the San Francisco region on Sept. 9, born from California's record-breaking fire season, resulted in a dramatically orange glow over the city. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) tweeted a video of an Alaska Airlines plane taking off through the strange orange haze, en route to idyllic Palm Springs, Calif. The orange color is created by smoke particles manipulating the sunlight traveling through the smoke, explained the Bay Area Air District, a pollution control agency. When thick enough, smoke particles scatter blue light (a shorter light wavelength) but "yellow-orange-red light" (which travels in longer wavelengths) slips through the smoke, "causing skies to look orange," the agency said.  Read more...More about California, Climate Change, Fires, Science, and Climate Environment