off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

A mysterious "ghost island" formed by an underwater mud volcano appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 only to vanish again ...

A mysterious island emerged and then vanished from the surface of the Caspian Sea within less than two years. Experts identified this phenomenon thanks to images provided by NASA. According to Science ...

The phantom landmass had emerged in the Caspian Sea following the 2023 ... the fleeting island remained under the sea, per the images. It remained there until breaking the surface on February ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

Photos show what remains of the ship and its cargo. Shifting water levels and sand erosion along the coast of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, revealed the top of a ship in fall 2003, ...

The island was spotted by satellite in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, NASA says. NASA photo Like some sort of modern Atlantis, a “ghost” island has largely ...

Two ships ship lie grounded ashore in the Caspian Sea, north of Makhachkala, Russia, Feb. 1, 2005 (AP Photo by Hadzhimurad Zurgalov). Editor’s note: Robert Looney passed away on Dec. 19 ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

Three images of the "ghost island" that appeared off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, dated from November 2022 (left), February 2023 (center) and December 2024 (right). | Credit ...