Kumani Bank mud volcano has produced transient islands multiple times since its first recorded eruption in 1861.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, a continuously active volcano, was recently photographed by Landsat 9 during a phase of ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the ...

Not much is understood about mud volcanoes, but their violent eruptions cause tiny islands to form and disappear within ...

NASA has released images of a vanishing "ghost island" in the Caspian Sea captured by its satellites. The Kumani Bank mud ...

A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 due to a mud volcano eruption and vanished by the following year, ...

The rapid pace of melting glaciers is causing profound environmental and geopolitical changes due to shifting national ...

Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as ...

From above, you get an entirely different perspective. The US Geological Survey-operated Landsat 7 satellite captured a stunning image of the Dasht-e Kavir from above (seen below) way back in 2000.

Abstract: This article presents a multiscale feature-enhanced water detector using truncated Gaussian clutter (TGCFeWD) for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. It aims to improve detection ...