Scientists are “working to assess the extent of the damage, but it is severe.”Bad FloodA burst water pipe has wreaked havoc on data sent by a pair of NASA spacecraft — the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) — which are tens of thousands and hundreds of miles away from Earth, respectively.And no, the four-inch cooling water line wasn’t attached to either of them when it burst on November 26. The incident occurred at the SDO Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) at Stanford University in California, according to…
