The joys of scientific discovery

There is a group of people, in cooperation with Purdue University, looking for Amelia's Earhardt's plane.  They've poured over the transmissions, satellite images, maps, and other available data and they thought they had a lead.

Among the reasons were a satellite image that looked like maybe it was a plane, and a transmission fragment where Earhardt says "New York" ... and a shipwreck for the SS Norwich was found nearby. So maybe she was giving a location in a way?

The researchers went in cautiously optimistic, but same up empty.  The "plane" turned out to be fallen trees. And there was no evidence to support her having been on the island.

The researchers were disappointed, but took it in stride, and will examine what they did find to try and learn something about our oceans and how things flow through them. And they will continue to look for the plane.

Maybe they came up empty, but they are still learning something, and attempting to solve a nearly 100 year old mystery.