Picture released by China's manned space project on October 5, 2008 shows the image of China's Shenzhou-7 spaceship, taken by a small monitoring satellite six seconds after it was released from the spaceship on September 27, 2008. Launched about two hours after Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang finished the country's first spacewalk, the monitoring satellite has sent back over 1,000 pictures of the spaceship. The shadow on the spaceship was that of the monitoring satellite.

Picture released by China's manned space project on October 5, 2008 shows the image of China's Shenzhou-7 spaceship, taken by a small monitoring satellite three minutes after it was released from the spaceship on September 27, 2008. Launched about two hours after Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang finished the country's first spacewalk, the monitoring satellite has sent back over 1,000 pictures of the spaceship. The shadow on the spaceship was that of the monitoring satellite.

Picture released by China's manned space project on October 5, 2008 shows the image of China's Shenzhou-7 spaceship, taken by a small monitoring satellite six minutes after it was released from the spaceship on September 27, 2008. Launched about two hours after Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang finished the country's first spacewalk, the monitoring satellite has sent back over 1,000 pictures of the spaceship. The shadow on the spaceship was that of the monitoring satellite.

(Xinhua News Agency October 6, 2008)