Imagine being alone in the middle of a Category 3 hurricane, surrounded by waves taller than a five-story building. It’s somewhat like that scene out of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar – the one on the rogue planet with waves the size of mountains. But thankfully, that was just fiction. And thankfully, nobody was aboard this vessel. Pretty dramatic footage captured by an unmanned Saildrone shows the 23-foot ocean-going robot charging through Hurricane Isaias in the Gulf of Mexico on October 9. The craft, SD-1045, was operating in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), collecting scientific data as it passed through the storm’s eye. JUST IN: Saildrone Explorer SD-1045 passed through the eye of Category 3 Hurricane Isaias, recording wind gusts over 90 knots (103 mph). This is the same USV that filmed inside Hurricane Sam in 2021, setting a Guinness World Record.…