Based in Almaty, the institute has long been at the forefront of Caspian seal research. Scientists at the institute conduct ...

And yet on maps of the shoreline from the previous year ... Two centuries later, NASA geologists reviewing satellite footage of the Caspian Sea found themselves asking the same questions.

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 ...

The phantom landmass had emerged in the Caspian Sea following the 2023 eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, which is located some 15 miles off the East coast of Azerbaijan, SWNS reported.

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...