Canada's "hailstorm alley" just produced a storm with a scar visible from space.

Satellite imagery from NASA caught the aftermath of a hailstorm that ripped through a region southeast of Calgary, Alberta on Aug. 20. The scar, roughly 125 miles (200 km) in length, is especially visible because vegetation in the late summer "has matured and greened up," agency officials wrote on Aug. 28.

Western University in southern Ontario, which studied the 9-mile (15-km) wide storm swath as part of its Northern Hail Project, stated the aftermath was "among the worst" the project had ever seen.

"Crop damage in this swath was total, with grain crops leveled and corn left as mostly bare stalks," read a statement provided to Canadian public broadcaster CBC in a report Sunday (Sept. 7). "Even areas of gra

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