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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Known as 'the city under the ice,' Camp Century was built in 1959. It consists of 21 tunnels drilled just below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, spanning a total length of 9,800 feet.

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.

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 sheet.

The scanning flight was intended to map out the ice sheet in order to better determine how it'll be affected by climate change, which is a real concern for Camp Century.

Camp Century was a U.S. military base constructed in 1959 within the Greenland ice sheet with a network of tunnels and infrastructure. According to NASA, it is known as the "city under the ice." ...

The Cold War was full of ambitious and often strange projects.Case in point: Camp Century, the US Army’s subterranean nuclear apocalypse bunker built inside Greenland’s near-surface ice sheet ...

Camp Century was a military base that was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1959. Engineers built the base by cutting a network of tunnels into the ice sheet.