A new mission aimed at solving the mystery of what happened to aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart has been postponed until 2026.

A team from Purdue University had planned to begin surveying a remote, uninhabited island in the Western Pacific Ocean next month, where satellite images identified an object that could be the wreckage of Earhart’s Model 10E Electra aircraft.

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. She was 39 at the time.

Researchers will examine the so-called Taraia Object, an anomaly located in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Island. Nikumaroro is part of the Republic of Kiribati, situated north of Samoa and Fiji, and southeast of the Marshall Islands.

The decision

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