普渡大学和考古遗产研究所组成的联合探险队计划周六前往太平洋无人岛尼库马罗岛，试图破解飞行员埃米莉亚·埃尔哈特近90年来的失踪之谜1。埃尔哈特及其导航员弗雷德·努南于1937年7月在太平洋上失踪1。此次探险基于卫星影像发现，该影像显示尼库马罗岛泻湖浅水区可能存在飞机残骸1。卫星图像中的物体"大小恰好可代表"埃尔哈特驾驶的洛克希德电辰飞机的机身和尾翼1。
探险队将采用多种先进技术进行搜索3。他们计划使用无人机、磁强计和声纳等设备来定位可能被沉积物覆盖的飞机残骸3。如果初步搜索结果令人鼓舞，团队将使用液压疏浚机挖掘沉积物3。2015年强台风改变了岛屿的地理特征，随后的卫星图像才显示出这些异常3。
然而，学术界对这一发现的真实性仍存异议1。国际航空史保护小组主任里克·吉列斯皮认为卫星影像显示的是"被风暴连根拔起冲上陆地的死亡潘达努树"，而非飞机残骸1。与此同时，史密森国家航空航天博物馆策展人多萝西·科克兰持不同看法，她认为埃尔哈特的飞机可能已沉没在豪兰岛附近的海底1。
An expedition organized by Purdue University and the Archaeological Heritage Institute plans to depart this Saturday for Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific to investigate the disappearance of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart 1. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished in July 1937, nearly 90 years ago 1. The joint team will search a shallow lagoon area near Taraia Cape, where satellite imagery has revealed an anomalous object that researchers believe could be wreckage from Earhart's Lockheed Electra aircraft 1.
The satellite images, taken after a 2015 tropical cyclone altered the island's geography, show a shape consistent with the fuselage and tail section of an Electra aircraft 3. The expedition will employ drones, magnetometers, and sonar technology to locate potential aircraft remains that may be covered by sediment 3. If preliminary findings prove promising, the team plans to use hydraulic dredging equipment to excavate the deposit 3.
However, skepticism surrounds the discovery. Rick Gillespie, director of TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), contends that the satellite image shows a dead pandanus tree uprooted and washed ashore by storms, not an aircraft 1. Dorothy Cochrane, curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, offers an alternative theory, suggesting Earhart's plane may have sunk in the ocean near Howland Island 1.
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