NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf

Left photo: A drill at Camp Century, Greenland – 1966. Source: National Archives, photo ID 404791598 / US Army collection. Middle photo: Aerial view of Camp Century, Greenland. Source: US Army / Wikimedia Commons. Right photo: Camp Century trench construction – 1960. Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / Wikimedia Commons. All three photos are in the Public Domain. Article by Connor Lagore. Popular Mechanics – February 20, 2026.

Over the years, we’ve dug up a lot of stuff buried underneath layers upon layers of ice. Ancient tools, animal corpses, World War II planes, volcanoes—you name it, ice has buried it, and we’ve found it. During an April 2024 flight over the Greenland Ice Sheet, NASA scientist Chad Greene added a pretty surprising entrant to that list: a secret military base. After taking radar images of the ice, Greene was surprised to see what was shortly thereafter confirmed to be Camp Century—a 65-year-old Cold War United States military base buried 100 feet deep in the massive ice sheet. […]

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