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 ...

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 ...

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.

"We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," recounted Alex Gardner, a project leader and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, per the report. "We didn't know what it ...

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 left map illustrates the cumulative melt days on the Greenland Ice Sheet for the 2025 melt season through June 30. The ...

NASA has discovered a military base within an ice sheet in Greenland, which dates back to 1959 and is known as the "City under the Ice." The base was known as Camp Century, a testing site for ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of tunnels dubbed 'Camp Century'.

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 ...