As it turns out, this abandoned "secret city" was the site of a secret Cold War project known as Project Iceworm which called for the construction of 2,500 miles (4,023 km) of tunnels that could be used to nuclear intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the Soviet Union.

NASA performed a scientific mission earlier this year, surveying Greenland's massive ice sheet to test the limits and capabilities of its Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture

In April 2024, a NASA scientific aircraft flying over the Greenland ice sheet uncovered the remnants of an abandoned American military base: Camp Century. This site, a network of tunnels within

NASA has released photos of a US military base that was built in the ice in Greenland during the Cold War and later abandoned. The photos were captured by happenstance while NASA scientist Chad Greene was flying over the Greenland Ice Sheet.

A team of NASA engineers aboard the Gulfstream III detected something buried under the ice sheet in Northwestern Greenland. NASA scientists didn't know what it was at first, until discovering it was Camp Century,

NASA scientists have located Camp Century, a U.S. military base from the Cold War era, buried deep beneath Greenland’s ice sheet. Built in the 1950s and abandoned in 1967, the base remained hidden under layers of ice for decades.