普渡大学与考古遗产研究所联合组织的17人考察队前往太平洋基里巴斯的尼库马罗岛，调查一个神秘物体的来源。1这项调查与航空先驱埃尔哈特失踪之谜息息相关——埃尔哈特和导航员弗雷德·努南在1937年从拉埃新几内亚起飞前往豪兰岛后失踪。1考察队将重点调查卫星影像中发现的"塔拉亚物体"，该物体自1938年起在影像中可见，被推测可能是埃尔哈特失踪飞机的残骸。1
研究团队计划采用磁力计和声纳进行遥感扫描，如获基里巴斯政府批准，明年将进行全面挖掘。1此前在尼库马罗岛已发现多项可疑物品，包括化妆品罐、飞机相关材料和鞋类残片。11940年在该环礁发现的人类遗骨一直是学术争议焦点。1不过，竞争对手考察者里克·吉莱斯皮则认为塔拉亚物体只是被潮汐冲入的倒树。1考察队计划月底前返回基里巴斯首都塔拉瓦。1
A 17-member research team organized jointly by Purdue University and the Archaeological Heritage Institute has traveled to Nikumaroro Island in Kiribati in the central Pacific to investigate the disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.1 The expedition aims to determine whether an unidentified object visible in satellite imagery since 1938, known as the Taraia object, may be wreckage from Earhart's aircraft that vanished in 1937.1
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937 after departing from Lae, New Guinea, en route to Howland Island.1 The research team plans to conduct remote sensing surveys using magnetometers and sonar to examine the object, with plans for comprehensive excavation beginning next year pending approval from the Kiribati government.1
Previous discoveries on Nikumaroro Island, including cosmetic jars, aircraft-related materials, and shoe fragments, have sustained decades of academic debate about Earhart's fate.1 Human remains discovered on the atoll in 1940 remain a focal point of scholarly contention.1 However, rival researcher Rick Gillespie has suggested the Taraia object is merely a tree deposited by tidal action rather than aircraft wreckage.1 The expedition team is scheduled to return to Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, by month's end.1
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