Astronaut aboard Tiangong Space Station captured from ISS Siling Lake (Siling Co).
Siling Lake is a salt lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China to the north of Xainza. Doijiang is located near the lake. The salt lake lies at an altitude of 4,530m. Siling Co is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern Tibetan Plateau and forms part of the Siling Co National Nature Reserve. The reserve was established in 1993 and contains significant populations of black-necked cranes and some 120 species of birds in total. The prairie on the banks of the lake is traditionally used as grazing land for yaks and sheep. The temperature at the lake is an annual average of −3 to −0.6 °C, the maximum annual temperature 9.4°C. The average rainfall is 290mm per year, 90% of which falls in the months of June to September, often in the summer as hail.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: CNSA’s Tweet
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