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This image provided by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and displayed at a U.S. State Department news conference on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, may provide a new clue in one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries and could soon help uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago, investigators said. Enhanced analysis of a photograph taken just months after Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane vanished shows what experts think may be the landing gear of the aircraft, the small black object on the left side of the image, protruding from the waters off the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Armed with that analysis by the State Department, historians, scientists and salvagers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, are returning to the island in July 2012 in the hope of finding the wreckage of Earhart's plane and perhaps even the remains of the pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan. (AP Photo/The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery)
This is a case of artifacts that holds aircraft skin, shoe heels and other evidence, shown in Washington on Monday, March 16, 1992, that Richard Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, claims is evidence that solves the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, 55 years ago. Gillespie???s team found the remnants in a search of the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro last October. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
The recent finding of skeletal remains of two persons on Saipan Island (A) raised the possibility they might be those of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, lost in 1937 on a flight from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island (B). Search continued on Nov. 24, 1961 along the South New Guinea coast (C) for missing Michael Rockefeller, son of the New York Governor. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart, the transatlantic flyer, is shown at the dinner in her honor given by the Paris Chapter of the National Aeronautique Association, June 3, 1938, Paris, France. At Miss Earhart???s right is Norman Armour, Charge D???affaires at the American Embassy, and at her left is Norman Armour who presided. (AP Photo)
George Palmer Putnam, husband of famed aviator Amelia Earhart, is shown at a Coast Guard radio station with maps and charts to follow his wife's plane on her attempt to round the world, in San Francisco, Calif., on July 3, 1937. Earhart's plane is hours overdue while en route between New Guinea and Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo)