In 1959, the United States began construction of a real-life version of the frozen Echo Base from The Empire Strikes Back. The plan for Camp Century was to test snow tunneling technologies in ...

A second, more remote base, named Nussbaum ... After the Reich surrendered in May 1945, these men were abandoned in the Arctic. Photograph archived by Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography ...

The base was abandoned in 1967, but a new scan from NASA shows it's still sitting 100 feet below the ice — along with all its radioactive waste. This past April, a team of scientists scanned the ...

🤯 A new radar image captured by @NASAJPL scientists during UAVSAR instrument tests reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base that is now buried within the ...

It was designed to test construction techniques in the Arctic and experiment ... and the site was abandoned in 1967, 98 feet ...

While the camp’s Cold War importance was fleeting — the US military abandoned Camp Century ... The Untold Story of America’s Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice,” authored ...

A space agency research plane swooped over the remote Arctic region this ... revealing the base. The image below shows Camp Century's long abandoned structures and tunnels under Greenland's ...

TUCKED deep inside the Arctic Circle lies an abandoned Soviet base that is home to the world's deepest manmade hole dubbed "Well to Hell". Located in northwestern Russia near the Norwegian border ...

a place where Arctic fox and Svalbard reindeer roam the streets – I went a little further. The final leg to the all-but-abandoned coal-mining town left behind the known world, or, rather ...

For a start, even in that incredibly remote, wild region, you come across human rubbish, he says: "What you see in this area of Russian Arctic, it's abandoned barrels, fuel barrels. It's a ...