Most famously, this took the form of a 488-meter (1,600-foot) plume back when the Dashli Island mud volcano, also in the ...

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 ...

The landmass, spotted by satellite in the Caspian Sea Feb. 14, 2023, is believed to have been birthed a month earlier by an eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, the observatory said in a news ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery. | Credit: NASA Earth ...

The "weird" sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted in early 2023. An artist's impression of Nasa's Landsat 8 satellite, which snapped the photos of the "ghost ...

A rare 'ghost island' appeared and quickly disappeared in the Caspian Sea after the eruption of Kumani Bank mud volcano off Azerbaijan's coast. NASA satellites captured the event, showing the ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers. The island emerged in early 2023, only to recede into the sea by the end of 2024 ...

But the reality is land is always changing — perhaps nowhere more so than at the Kumani Bank mud volcano ... off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has ...