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Stefanie Waldek

Satellites watch 'ghost island' solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos)

A satellite's view of a tiny island off of a larger coastline. a wispy trail of muddy water extends downward away from the island in the surrounding water.

We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of our lives.

And to think that the ground is ever-changing, well, that's a bit unsettling. But the reality is land is always changing — perhaps nowhere more so than at the Kumani Bank mud volcano, also known as Chigil-Deniz, some 15 miles (25 km) off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea.

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