GREENBELT, Md. (WJZ) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may be in the future business, but at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, it also has a footprint in the distant past. <\/p>\n
Alex DeMetrick reports, the foot in question is a dinosaurs. <\/p>\n
When NASA sent its latest rover to Mars, it carried a critical chemistry lab designed and built at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. But the newest discovery was in their own backyard. <\/p>\n
And all of a sudden, I saw sticking out of the ground the edges of a footprint, dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford said. <\/p>\n
People walked right by it not knowing its the footprint of a dinosaur. <\/p>\n
You tend to ignore it, Stanford said. Most people have different search images. They dont have dinosaur tracks on their mind. <\/p>\n
But Stanford does. An amateur paleontologist, he was visiting the NASA campus when he spotted it. <\/p>\n
And there it was, to much of my joy and amazement, he said. <\/p>\n
Easier to see the outline now? Its prehistoric mud pushed up and frozen in time, quite probably by something that looked like a Nodosaur, named for the armor-like nodes or nobs on its body. <\/p>\n
This thing was very large and heavy, Stanford said. When it steps down into the mud, it oozes a squish-up, a squeeze-up around it and thats exactly what happened here. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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