Well, new claims that A. Earhart plane is found -

Satellites are so good now that archeologists don't even have to go digging around. They can see these things from space. Are we ready to debunk this yet?

Amelia Earhart's plane found on ocean floor? Sonar image near Nikumaroro Island locates wing

 

Good quote from another article:

“Not to impugn Ric [Gillespie, the executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)], but I don’t think he’s found anything on any expedition,” says Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum who is responsible for the museum’s history of women in aviation collections.

Matt

 

No, not satellites at all, TIGHAR had a sonar equipped ship sailing around the island a number of months ago taking hundreds of sonar readings. Then went back to port and went through the data.

Not making a judgement on what they found.


However, satellites (even using Google Earth) have been used to make some incredible finds photgraphically, such as undiscovered tombs in Egypt, pyramids in Central America/Mexico, etc.