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Framing space: UK newspaper reporting of the Beagle 2 and Cassini-Huygens space missions

There is relatively little scholarly work looking at the portrayal of astronomy and space science in the media. This short article examines the UK press coverage of two space missions: the Beagle 2 mission to Mars and the Cassini-Huygen mission to Saturn and its moonTitan. In both cases, the leading scientists exert a strong influence on what journalists report, to the extent that some of them may appear to be “ embedded” with the mission. For the most part, the coverage is positive in tone, and the loss of the Beagle 2 spacecraft does not reflect badly on the (later) Cassini-Huygens coverage. Journalists cover the mission events themselves, but not the peer-reviewed scientific articles that appear later (in the case of Huygens). Scientists’ off-the-cuff comments are widely reported. There appears to be an appreciation by journalists and (by inference) their readership that this is science-in-the-making, and allowances should be made should the comments turn out later to be inaccurate.

Znanstvena komunikacija; mediji; astronomija; Cassini-Huygens; Beaggle

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