This may be one of the last images captured by our AGS in Seattle, which was decoded at dusk from NOAA 15, and it happens to be on one of our hottest days of the year, with a sun setting behind a large plume of wildfire smoke blowing into the Puget Sound from the Bear Gulch fire burning on the Olympic Peninsula. It is a stunningly striking and somber sunset, as we also witness the sunset on a program of instruments that have allowed use to capture and observe data in real time on the ground, all the way from LEO. It seems only appropriate that during these days of increasing heat and smoke are the times when we turn off these instruments to fly blindly into a future of anthropogenic climate change...