I may or may not have already shared this. But in an effort to clear my phone's numerous hitherto unread tabs, better to share twice than not at all.

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. Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. 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.

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. "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. "We didn't know what it was at first," Mr Gardner added.

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.

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https://news.sky.com/story/camp-century-lost-cold-war-city-under-the-ice-rediscovered-by-nasa-13261916