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 ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared ... off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images ...

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 ...

And did it have anything to do with the ever-burning flames seen on nearby Dashly Island? Two centuries later, NASA geologists reviewing satellite footage of the Caspian Sea found themselves ...