NASA researchers have announced that they have unexpectedly rediscovered the remains of an abandoned US military base in Greenland, known as the “city under the ice.”
Camp Century is a Cold War-era military base built in 1959 as a testing site for Project Iceworm. top secret plan The plan was to launch a nuclear weapon through a tunnel dug into the ice, but the mission was called off in 1967 after the military “realized how vulnerable a nuclear city surrounded by shifting ice would be,” the report said. states. washington post.
In addition to being a nuclear missile base, Camp Century is planned to expand into a full city “three times the size of Denmark,” housing 11,000 military personnel over 52,000 square miles. Ta. Under the ice, the newspaper reported.
The grand plan failed and the base was eventually abandoned, but in April, when NASA scientist Chad Green boarded a Gulfstream III plane with a group of engineers and encountered a startling fact, this underground Cities were once again a hot topic.
While using radar equipment to study the Greenland ice sheet, the equipment “unexpectedly detected something buried in the ice.” press release state.
“We came out of Camp Century looking for the bottom of the ice,” said NASA cryosphere scientist Alex Gardner, one of the project's leaders. “We didn't even know what it was at first.”
After being abandoned, Greenland's heavy snow and low temperatures buried the structure under at least 100 feet of ice, scientists said.
“The new data visualizes the individual structures of the secret city in a way never seen before,” Green said.
NASA shared new radar images on social media.
