NASA has shared an image of a defunct Cold War-era military base hidden deep underneath the frigid Greenland Ice Sheet.
As NASA cryospheric scientist Chad Greene flew over the Arctic plateau in April 2024, around 150 miles east of Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland, he snapped an image from the window of the Gulfstream III aircraft.
At the same time, the plane's radar instrument picked up a ping from deep below the ice, which turned out to be the remains of Camp Century, a Cold War base buried 100 feet below the surface of the frozen island.
"We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," Alex Gardner, also a cryospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), said in a statement. READ MORE...
