Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.

A NASA research aircraft spotted Camp Century, home to the secretive Cold War project Iceworm, deep beneath Greenland's ice.

NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the ...

Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.

I n April 2024, NASA scientists conducting an ice sheet survey over Greenland made a startling discovery: an abandoned city buried deep beneath the ice, identified as Camp Century, a Cold War-era ...

As first flagged by Gizmodo on Monday, the most recent look at Camp Century came during an April 2024 flyby from NASA researchers. The team wasn’t actually looking for evidence of the facility ...

Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War-era military installation, was rediscovered 100 feet beneath the ice by a NASA Gulfstream III back in April, according to a news release. 4 ...

(Image credit: NASA) Construction on Camp Century began in 1959, but the base was abandoned in 1967 due to the costs and challenges of keeping the tunnels from collapsing in the ever-shifting ice ...

Turns out Greene stumbled upon Camp Century — a once-secret military base from the Cold War era. The startling discovery happened as he flew over northern Greenland in April, some 150 miles east ...

Image Credit: NASA “We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,” said Alex Gardner, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who helped lead ...

More than six decades ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was hard at work on a project in Greenland: Camp Century. The project itself, set in a military base with two miles of tunnels, wasn’t ...

Abandoned in 1967, snow and ice have accumulated over the camp with the facility’s solid structures now lying at least 30m (100ft) below the surface, researchers say. “We were looking for the ...