I woke up today seeing that my windows appeared to have an yellow/orange tint to them, signalling that wildfire smoke was upon my city and reminding us that climate-related hazards are increasingly becoming visible parts of our daily lives.
I’m a family physician, public health physician and medical educator. My work and research in space medicine has also given me a unique appreciation for planetary environments, and as I looked out at the orange haze, I could not help but reflect on how this view resembles the dust-filled skies astronauts will one day encounter when viewing the Martian landscape.
