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Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility
NASA radar accidentally finds secret Cold War 'city under the ice' in Greenland
The CIRES-led study used ground-penetrating radar to estimate the amount of waste under the ice. The team found that the waste at Camp Century covers about 136 acres, about the size of 100 football fields, and contains an estimated 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 63,000 gallons of wastewater.
'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet
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'City under the ice': NASA scientists find abandoned Cold War military base in Greenland
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Scientists flying in a NASA Gulfstream III jet to measure Arctic ice with a radar therefore got something of a surprise when they found just such a secret base, long since given over to the elements and buried deep under the ice sheet of Greenland.
"City under the ice": NASA finds secret base buried in Greenland
NASA's radar revealed Camp Century, a Cold War base under Greenland's ice. It provides data on ice sheet melting and rising sea levels.
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