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 ...

Photo: EU/Copernicus Sentinel Landsat 8 and 9 orbit the Earth at a distance of ... attention to the seismologically excitable Caspian Sea. And in 2023, that attention was rewarded.

The “weird” sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted in early 2023. By then end of last year it had almost completely disappeared – dissolving away “like an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...