A team of NASA scientists confirmed the discovery of the remains of Camp Centuryan American military base built during the Cold war that remained hidden during decades under ice of the northeast of Greenland.
The installation was lifted in 1959 With permission from Government of Denmarkalthough this did not know the real objective of the project.
The base was part of the secret Iceworm Projectwhose purpose was to deploy until 600 Nuclear Missiles of Medium Scope hidden under the icy surface, far from the control of the Soviet block.
How was Camp Century detected
The finding occurred by synthetic opening radar for unmanned aircraft (Uavsar), which allowed to identify the structures to some 30 meters deep. He NASA Earth Observatory He recalled that “it was one of the first places where a portable nuclear reactor was used in a remote base.”
The base was abandoned in 1967but its infrastructure remained trapped in the ice along with tons of polluting materials. The discovery reopened the discussion about the remains of the cold war and the possible environmental impacts.
In 2021the University of Copenhagen published a study in the magazine Frontierswhere he concluded that until 2100 the thaw would not yet reach the committed zone.
The unpublished images of the secret city that discovered NASA
The NASA researcher Chad Greene He affirmed that “in the new data, the individual structures of the secret city are visible in a way that They had never seen themselves before”The images obtained showed a dense and perfectly recognizable geometric pattern.
For his part, the raised specialist of the NASA JPL, Alex Gardnerexplained: “In radar images, which seemed to be a huge structure had been exposed in the depths of the frozen landscape. We were looking for the ice bed and Camp Century appears.”
An underground city under ice
Camp Century was designed to host until 200 people And it worked thanks to the first portable nuclear reactor of the world, the PM-2a.
The complex had 21 interconnected tunnels that extended throughout almost Three kilometers. Inside there was bedrooms, laboratories, hospital, chapel, recreational spaces and an electric transport system Underground, which made it a true city under the ice.
Source: Ambito
