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NASA Radar Detects Abandoned Site of Secret Cold War Project in Greenland—a ‘City Under the Ice’
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility
NASA Accidentally Rediscovers Cold War-Era Military Base Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Operated from 1959-67, Camp Century was abandoned after officials realized the ice wasn’t as stable as previously thought. Since then, it’d largely been forgotten about – that is, until NASA accidentally captured an image of the subterranean base in April 2024.
'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet
As it turns out, this abandoned "secret city" was the site of a secret Cold War project known as Project Iceworm which called for the construction of 2,500 miles (4,023 km) of tunnels that could be used to nuclear intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the Soviet Union.
NASA radar accidentally finds secret Cold War 'city under the ice' in Greenland
The CIRES-led study used ground-penetrating radar to estimate the amount of waste under the ice. The team found that the waste at Camp Century covers about 136 acres, about the size of 100 football fields, and contains an estimated 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 63,000 gallons of wastewater.
"City under the ice": NASA finds secret base buried in Greenland
NASA's radar revealed Camp Century, a Cold War base under Greenland's ice. It provides data on ice sheet melting and rising sea levels.
NASA Discovers Secret Army Base Buried Under Decades of Ice
Scientists flying in a NASA Gulfstream III jet to measure Arctic ice with a radar therefore got something of a surprise when they found just such a secret base, long since given over to the elements and buried deep under the ice sheet of Greenland.
NASA Finds Secret Underground “City” Hidden From The World Under 100 Feet Of Ice And Snow
NASA scientists unearthed an astonishing man-made spectacle, lying frozen 100 feet below the surface and frozen in secrecy and ice. The post NASA Finds Secret Underground “City” Hidden From The World Under 100 Feet Of Ice And Snow first appeared on Bored Panda.
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NASA Tracking 'Potentially Hazardous' Empire-State—Sized Asteroids Incoming
The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...
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Foust Forward | Who gets the final word on Mars Sample Return?
By the end of this year, NASA may have a new plan in place for returning samples from Mars. The agency announced in October that it had convened an outside panel of experts to review a dozen ...
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Nasa 'robot-fish' to hunt for alien life in hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon
(Web Desk) - A ‘swarm’ of tiny robot fish could hunt for alien life in hidden oceans on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...
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Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Curiosity rover, agency reveals
Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...
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NASA Underwater Robots to Search for Life on Moons With Oceans Like Europa
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent ...
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NASA Tracking Football Field-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow
WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...
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NASA Explains How Do Glaciers Melt
Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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