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Sharmila Kuthunur

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory back online after 2024 data center flood

A yellowish brown view of the sun with lots of glowing activity.

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to information and images beamed to Earth by the instruments.

"We have begun processing most near-real-time [Solar Dynamics Observatory] data products," JSOC team members at Stanford — short for Joint Science Operations Center — which is spearheading repairs, said in a Jan. 7 update.

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