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 ...

After the camp was decommissioned in 1967, the US military failed to remove the facility's waste and infrastructure, assuming that it would eventually be entombed in Greenland's ice sheet over 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.

Those flights used conventional ground-penetrating radar, which points straight down and produces a 2D profile of the ice sheet. In that view (map below), Camp Century’s solid structures appear ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

NASA discovers underground ‘city’ beneath ice sheet in Greenland By . Shane Galvin. Published Nov. 27, ... “We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,” said Alex ...

The waste buried at Camp Century is becoming more of a threat now that the Greenland ice sheet is melting due to global warming. Greenland, which is home to about 56,500 people, is a semi ...

Camp Century was also designed to carry out a proof of concept for a far more expansive plan that would have built a nuclear missile base underneath the ice sheet. Water is seen on part of the ...

The melting today on Greenland’s ice sheet is roughly equal to the greatest rates of ice loss in the last 12,000 years, a new study shows. But if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, the ice ...

Buried below the ice sheet that covers most of Greenland, there's an abandoned U.S. Army base. Camp Century had trucks, tunnels, even a nuclear reactor. Advertised as a research station, it was ...

It is not true now, but the potential exists about 80 years from now. Camp Century is a now-abandoned U.S. base that was built on the ice sheet in northern Greenland in 1959. Its mission, publicly ...