Camp Century was built by the U.S. within the ice sheet in 1959, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Camp Century was initially drawn up to be three times the size of Denmark (which owns Greenland), sitting at 52,000 square miles (about the size of Louisiana) and outfitted with 2,000 firing ...

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." ...

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.

These events came together in the Arctic earlier this year, resulting in intriguing new looks at what researchers call "Camp Century" or "the city under the ice.". The scientists weren't even ...

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 ...

It is located around 100 feet beneath the surface. CAMP CENTURY, Greenland (WKRC) - NASA scientists said they've found an abandoned "city under the ice" while performing a survey in Greenland.

Method can help scientists measure ice sheet thickness in similar ... tunnels under a near-surface layer of the Greenland ice sheet. ... for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century.