{"id":183770,"date":"2024-11-27T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/camp-century-lost-cold-war-city-under-the-ice-rediscovered-by-nasa\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T20:51:12","slug":"camp-century-lost-cold-war-city-under-the-ice-rediscovered-by-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/camp-century-lost-cold-war-city-under-the-ice-rediscovered-by-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Century: Lost Cold War ‘city under the ice’ rediscovered by NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost “city” buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland<\/a><\/strong>, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the project and left the camp – which could have expanded to 33 bases – to be slowly lost to the elements.<\/p>\n

That’s until NASA scientist Chad Greene, helped by agency expert Alex Gardner, flew over Greenland in April this year to map ice sheets and estimate future sea level rise.<\/p>\n

“We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,” said Mr Gardner, describing how their radar-detecting structures appeared to align with tunnels built in the base.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t know what it was at first,” Mr Gardner added.<\/p>\n

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While the presence of the base has been known for years and has been detected previously, NASA said the new mapping shows structures “in a way that they’ve never been seen before”.<\/p>\n

Officially, Camp Century was created to test sub-ice construction techniques, but the real plan was top secret – creating a hidden launch site in case of conflict with the Soviets.<\/p>\n

It was abandoned in 1966, but what the US left behind – an estimated 200,000 litres of diesel oil and sewage – has caused a row over the clean-up.<\/p>\n

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Greenland has previously called on Denmark – which owns the land – to take responsibility, arguing the Danes agreed to the deal in the first place.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of his first term in office president-elect Donald Trump said he was interested in buying Greenland<\/a><\/strong> from Denmark, describing it as “essentially a large real estate deal”.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Why the Caspian Sea is shrinking<\/a><\/strong>
Greenland may once have been ice-free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With Greenland’s ice sheet melting, the land beneath may reveal gold, rubies, diamonds, coppers, olivine, marble and oil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Melting means previously out-of-reach energy and minerals are now more accessible – but climate change-driven sea level rise poses an increasing risk to coastal communities around the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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