It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

By then end of last year it had almost completely disappeared – dissolving away “like an apparition”, the NASA Earth Observatory said. The cycle of the “ghost island” appearing and then ...

retreating from view "like an apparition," said NASA Earth Observatory. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) and OLI-2 on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites captured images showing the island emerge and ...

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 ...