Earth’s Atmospheric Layers: A Journey Upward Help students explore the structure of Earth’s atmosphere with this engaging Layers of the Atmosphere infographic. This visual learning resource explains the five layers of Earth’s atmosphere from the surface upward and describes what occurs in each layer. Students learn about weather in the troposphere, the ozone layer in the stratosphere, meteors burning in the mesosphere, auroras in the thermosphere, and the transition to space in the exosphere.