Keeping the theme: ‘Planet Earth – our home: Explore, Share and Care,’ and the hosting place – Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad in mind, a cute, wonderful, childish and appealing logo has been designed for the 17th National Children Science Congress which is scheduled to be held in December this year.

The logo is the real picture of the Planet Earth Pavilion which is coming up in Gujarat Science City in a very big way. The Planet Earth dome is one of the larger single monolythic dome in the world and being recognized as an icon of Gujarat during the last Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor’s Meet in January 2009.

The Planet Earth Pavilion in the Gujarat Science City is going to be a unique pavilion for educating the visitors about our own Planet Earth and its rich biotic and abiotic resources, natural catastrophes and technological advances we can achieve sustainable development.

In this way the 17th NCSC logo is all set to invite quest for the participants on the theme, about the venue and the progressive state.

About Planet Earth pavilion

It is possibly the biggest cement concrete dome of India in making. The 57 meter globe shaped ‘Planet earth pavilion’ is under construction in Ahmedabad’s Science City. The Pavilion has been constructed over an area of 9000 sq.m in hexagonal grid pattern.

The Planet Earth will depict the live experience of various natural disasters and disaster management tasks with various interactive exhibits and activities. The main section of the Planet Earth pavilion includes the celestial trio (Sun, earth and moon), the dynamic Earth, resources of the Earth, the Planet Ocean, water, the fountain of life, the Atmosphere, and children activity area.

Inside the dome Dynamic Earth Section there is a provision of Earthquake Demonstration corner. An earthquake platform on a hydraulic simulator, suitable for 15-20 visitors, giving a life-like experience of random tremors of earthquakes. A video projection will indicate the intensity in Richter scale, the location of the epicenter, secondary tremors and destruction caused by the earthquake.

The Resources of Earth Section will take the visitors to the interior of the earth – a simulated elevator ride to the deep interior of the earth – taking visitors to a faithfully recreated underground coal mine, showing coal seams, long-wall and short-wall coal cutting, gathering and transportation, mine supports, sand stowing, De-watering, and safety devices. There are also surrounding exhibits on petroleum, Geo-thermal energy, nuclear power plant, and collective display of gems, minerals, corals, pearls, sea nodules, and planktuns.

The section on Atmosphere will be furnished with animated exhibit showing earth’s atmosphere displaying various layers, their heights, composition and the way these layers are beneficial to us, the chemistry of air and its related experimentation.

The ground braking ceremony of this pavilion was performed by Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat on 29th October 2004.

The Asian Development Bank has providing the financial assistance of Rs. 15 crore through the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) for the development of the above pavilion. Total coast of the project will be around Rs. 26 crore. Tata consultancy has designed the construction part while scientist Saroj Ghosh has conceptualized and designed the exhibits.

This video was taken last year when making of Planet Earth was in secondary stage.