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.

In 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 U ...

Technology Aviation NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century It was once meant to be a ‘fantastic city under ice.' Andrew Paul Nov 25, 2024 1:28 PM EST ...

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

An image of Camp Century detected on Nasa’s radar last year revealed just how vast the complex was (NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison and Jesse Allen) ...

NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet.

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.

The abandoned city is a military base called Camp Century, built in 1959 by cutting a web of tunnels under a near-surface layer of the Greenland ice sheet.

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 ...

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Camp Century as seen by radar from the air. Image: Michala Garrison and Jesse Allen, using UAVSAR data and imagery provided by Chad Greene (NASA/JPL-Caltech) and IceBridge UHF ice-penetrating ...