NASA has stumbled upon a hidden military base within an ice sheet in Greenland, dating back to 1959 and dubbed the “City under the Ice.” Known as Camp Century, this site was once a test ground for nuclear missiles during the Cold War. It comes shortly after the agency confirmed the date of “the end of the world”.
NASA, always at the cutting edge of exploration, whether it’s space or out own planet, made the find while flying over Greenland. Scientists were scanning with radar when they detected something beneath the ice roughly 150 miles east of Pituffik Space Base.
“We didn’t know what it was at first,” admitted NASA’s cryospheric scientist Alex Gardner from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We were looking for the bed of the ice,” he explained, “and out pops Camp Century.”
Constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the base was operational for just eight years before being decommissioned and subsequently entombed in ice, forgotten by time.
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There had been subtle clues of its existence, with radars occasionally detecting hints of the base, but no substantial investigation followed these radar blips.
It took NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar to uncover compelling evidence that the structure was still intact.
“In the new data, individual structures in the secret city are visible in a way that they’ve never been seen before,” stated Greene.
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The radar was intended to gather data on potential impacts of future global warming, and the unearthing of Camp Century came as a surprise to the researchers.
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