NASA shows off image "acquired by chance" of U.S. military's abandoned "city under the ice" in Greenland
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As NASA scientist Chad Greene flew over northern Greenland with a team of engineers in April, they never expected their radar to find something manmade buried deep within the ice. Greene and his team were flying above the Greenland Ice Sheet on a NASA Gulfstream III plane, scanning the barren expanse of ice that's more than a mile deep in some areas, when their radar instrument picked up something unusual.
"We didn't know what it was at first," Greene said in a statement released by NASA's Earth Observatory this week, along with new images of the discovery. "We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century."
It turns out the team had stumbled upon an abandoned Cold War-era military base built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959. Nicknamed the "city under the ice," the compound consists of a network of tunnels carved into the ice sheet. It was abandoned in 1967 and, over time, became buried about 100 feet below the surface as snow and ice accumulated.
