KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One of the world's biggest mysteries may be one step closer to being solved.

On Wednesday, a team of researchers from Purdue University took off from an Indiana Airport en route to a remote Pacific island, where they believe the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane has sat for nearly a century.

The mission, called the "Taraia Object Expedition," consists of a field team organized by the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) and the Purdue Research Foundation.

The group will land in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, and then set sail on Nov. 4 for 1,200 miles to the remote island of Nikumaroro, located halfway between Australia and Hawaii.

There, they will spend several days on the South Pacific island to determine if a "visual anomaly," also called "the object," spotted

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