Many rumors exist about the final resting place of Noah's ark. But now one group thinks that they have actually found the ark using satellite pictures.
"We're telling people we're 98 percent sure," Daniel McGivern of the Hawaii Christian Coalition said. "In one image we saw the beams, the wood."
Satellites orbiting the Earth in space took pictures of Mount Ararat in Turkey. Many historians think that Noah's ark came to rest on the top of the mountain. At 17,000 feet (5,165 meters), Mount Ararat is the highest point in this area. And some historians think Noah lived in the area, if he in fact was a real man.
McGivern and a group of scientists and historians have planned a trip to the top of Mount Ararat—but climbing the mountain is not easy.
"The slopes are very, very harsh and dangerous on the northern face [of the mountain]—it is extremely challenging, mentally and physically," said Ahmet Arslan, a professor in Turkey who has climbed the mountain more than 50 times.
Not everyone is convinced that McGivern and his group have found Noah's ark. There is still no proof that the ark exists.
"We think that, with the hundreds of explorers who have visited the region, if the ark was jutting out of the ice, it would be obvious," said Rex Geissler, president of ArcImagining, an organization that has surveyed Mount Ararat.
After this summer's expedition to Mount Ararat, McGivern hopes to prove that the image in the satellite pictures is Noah's ark.
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