Researchers from Purdue University are preparing to resume the search for Amelia Earhart's long-lost aircraft, nearly 90 years after the pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific Ocean. The renewed expedition, delayed by earlier setbacks, will focus on investigating a satellite-imaged anomaly that some believe could be the wreckage of her Lockheed Electra plane.

The team plans to travel to Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific in October to examine the so-called Taraia Object, a formation identified through satellite imagery that has fuelled speculation it may be linked to Earhart's disappearance. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world, and the fate of their aircraft has remained one of aviation's most enduring mysteries.