A team of engineers and scientists flew a jet above northern Greenland back in April to test a radar instrument. […] ...
NASA scientists have located Camp Century, a U.S. military base from the Cold War era, buried deep beneath Greenland’s ice ...
During a test flight over Greenland, Tucson-based climate scientist Chad Greene got a one-of-a-kind look at an abandoned Cold ...
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...
First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...
Officially, it was presented as a scientific research station. But in reality, Camp Century served as a cover for Project ...
Operated from 1959-67, Camp Century was abandoned after officials realized the ice wasn’t as stable as previously thought.
Radar surveys occasionally show evidence of the base, lurking there like an environmental time bomb under the ice. But in ...
"We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," NASA cryospheric scientist Alex Gardner said.
As it turns out, this abandoned "secret city" was the site of a secret Cold War project known as Project Iceworm which called ...
NASA performed a scientific mission earlier this year, surveying Greenland's massive ice sheet to test the limits and ...
The base was built as part of Project Iceworm, a then-secret plan to experiment with building a missile launch site under the ...