>>> finally tonight it has been 75 years since a remarkable life ended and an enduring mystery began. what happened to amelia earhardt ? this week a new expedition departs from honolulu to perform a new kind of search, one that could perhaps finally answer the question. here's nbc's kristen dahlgren.
>> a lady adventurer, a heroin of the skies.
>> reporter: she was a pioneer of flight whose feats made imaginations soar.
>> i hope it will increase women in this in time.
>> reporter: in 1937 amelia earhart and her navigator set out to circle the globe.
>> contemplated about 27,000 miles.
>> reporter: she almost made it, an astonishing piece of flying from california to new guinea. but 75 years ago today over the remote south pacific amelia earhart disappeared. triggering a massive search and sparking one of the enduring mysteries of our time. her plane went down near a group of tiny, uninhabited islands . rick gillespie, who has devoted years to the search for earhart , believes she landed safely.
>> you think she was a castaway.
>> oh, yes. there is quite good evidence that she was a castaway.
>> excavations on this island have turned up products that appear to be manufactured in the u.s. in the 1930s . a woman's compact, a flight jacket zipper, and a jar that may have once held freckle cream.
>> earhart had freckles and didn't like her freckles.
>> reporter: add that to a newly discovered photo taken several months after earhart 's disappearance that seems to show something.
>> it does appear we have a picture of a piece of debris from her airplane on the reef of this island.
>> reporter: armed with new, deep water submersibles and side scanning sonar technology, gillespie and his team will test their theory that earhart 's plane was washed off the reef where it landed into the depths below. if they find anything on sonar, then this goes in the water, a specially designed remote operated vehicle that could give us our first clear pictures of earhart 's plane in 75 years. skeptics say earhart crashed into the ocean elsewhere or that 75 years in churning seas would have broken up the plane. but researchers are confident. so if there is something out there?
>> we'll see.
>> reporter: a new team of explorers on the hunt for one of history's greatest adventurers and the answers that could finally put a mystery and a heroine to rest. kristen dahlgren,
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