NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson

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The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and will fly close to asteroid Donaldjohanson in April.


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