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HOHHOT, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The landing of China's first manned
spacecraft following a 21-hour orbiting will go on in favorable climatic
conditions early Thursday, experts predicted.
According to the local meteorological station at the priority landing site
in Inner Mongolia, north China, the weather will be clear with good vision
throughout Thursday.
It will be clear to cloudy, with temperatures between minus four and eight
Celsius degrees. The wind speed will be four to sixmeters per second, and
visibility will be over 10 kilometers, according to Wang Yongsheng, director of
the meteorological station.
Wang explained that the landing requires a wind speed limit of less than 10
meters per second at low altitude of 300 meters or lower and less than 70 meters
per second in the upper atmosphere, no clouds at altitude lower than 1,000
meters and no rainfall or snow, and visibility of no less than 10 kilometers.
The weather conditions over the landing site will meet all the requirements
for the return of the re-entry module of Shenzhou-5 spacecraft, Wang added.
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