The first lady aboard Chinas brand-new area station has snapped some marvelous shots of our homeworld during a six-month objective to space.Wang Yaping flew to the Tianhe core module in October aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft in addition to her colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu. An image taken by Wang on Nov. 18 shows Qinghai lake at the bottom of the image pointing east towards the far-off East China Sea.Qinghai lake is described by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre as an inland saline wetland of international importance. Wangs colleagues, commander Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, took images of Wang in the Tianhe module as she floated in microgravity and dealt with apples. Related: The latest news about Chinas area programImage 1 of 4An image taken by Wang on Nov. 18 shows Qinghai lake at the bottom of the image pointing east towards the remote East China Sea. (Image credit: CNSA)Image 2 of 4Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping took these images from aboard the Tianhe spaceport station. (Image credit: CNSA)Image 3 of 4Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping managing with apples aboard the Tianhe space station. (Image credit: CNSA)Image 4 of 4Chinese astrnaut Wang Yaping inside the Tianhe space station. (Image credit: CNSA)Wang Yaping is a veteran of the 2013 Shenzhou 10 objective to the smaller sized Tiangong 1 area laboratory. During the two-week objective Wang delivered a live lecture on area physics to a class of kids back on Earth, with millions of Chinese school children also seeing the live broadcast. The contrast in between the Tiangong 1 and Tianhe, eight years apart, appears in an image shared by main area outreach channel Our Space.The astronaut, who became the first Chinese female to embark on an extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, is anticipated to carry out a comparable duty at some time during the six-month-long Shenzhou 13 objective. Zhai, Wang and Ye began their mission on Oct 15 and performed their very first spacewalk on Nov. 7. The teams duties consist of screening and preparing the Tianhe module to get brand-new modules next year, along with carrying out experiments and conducting science outreach. An image of mountainous surface from orbit as seen by astronaut Wang Yaping on Chinas Tiangong space station module Tianhe. (Image credit: CNSA)The objective follows the three-month-long Shenzhou 12 objective which launched in June, sending the first 3 astronauts to Tianhe. Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo likewise returned a series of stunning pictures of Earth utilizing smartphones taken with them to space.Meanwhile back on Earth in the Gobi Desert, Shenzhou 14 and a Long March 2F rocket stand in a state of near-readiness in case of an emergency situation on Tianhe.Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
