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New View of the “City Under the Ice”

A novel radar image reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story New View of the “City Under the Ice”.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison and Jesse Allen, using UAVSAR data and imagery provided by Chad Greene (NASA/JPL-Caltech) and IceBridge UHF ice-penetrating radar data provided by Joseph MacGregor (NASA/GSFC). Historical photograph courtesy of the National Archives, photo ID 404791598. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published November 25, 2024
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Sources:: Aircraft Sensors; Aircraft Sensors > UAVSAR; Photograph