INFOGRAPHIC ABOUT PLANET EARTH Earth's atmosphere

Earth's atmosphere is roughly 78 percent nitro

ORBIT ATMOSPHERE SIZE and 21 percent oxygen, with trace amounts

water, argon, carbon dioxide and other gase
Nowhere else in the solar system is there a
atmosphere loaded with free oxygen, which
vital to one of the other unique features of Ea
life.
Earth has a diameter of
Air surrounds Earth and becomes thinner fart
roughly 8,000 miles (13,000
from the surface. Roughly 100 miles (160 km
kilometers) . But, it's not
above Earth, the air is so thin that satellites c
perfectly round. Earth is zip through the atmosphere with little resistan
really an "oblate spheroid," Earth is the Earths moon Still, traces of atmosphere can be found as h
because its spin causes it to fifth largest 2,159 miles
be squashed at its poles and (3,474 km) wide, as 370 miles (600 km) above the planet's surfa
of the
swollen at the equator. about one-
planets in fourth of Earth's
the solar diameter.
system
Life on Earth
Earth is the only planet in the universe known to possess l
Earth's orbit The planet boasts several million species of life, living in
habitats ranging from the bottom of the deepest ocean to
While Earth orbits the sun, the planet is Earth's formation and few miles into the atmosphere. And scientists think far mo
simultaneously spinning on an imaginary line
alled an axis that runs from the North Pole to the
evolution species remain to be discovered.
Researchers suspect that other candidates for hosting life in
outh Pole. It takes Earth 23.934 hours to complete Scientists think Earth was formed at solar system — such as Saturn's moon Titan or Jupiter's mo
rotation on its axis and 365.26 days to complete roughly the same time as the sun and Europa — could house primitive living creatures. Scientists
an orbit around the sun. other planets some 4.6 billion years yet to precisely nail down exactly how our primitive ancest
first showed up on Earth. One solution suggests that life fi
Earth's axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the ago, when the solar system coalesced evolved on the nearby planet Mars, once a habitable plan
ecliptic plane, an imaginary surface through the from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and then traveled to Earth on meteorites hurled from the Re
planet's orbit around the sun. This means the Planet by impacts from other space rocks.
dust known as the solar nebula. As the
Northern and Southern hemispheres will
sometimes point toward or away from the sun nebula collapsed because of its
depending on the time of year, and this changes gravity, it spun faster and flattened
the amount of light the hemispheres receive, into a disk. Most of the material was
resulting in the seasons. pulled toward the center to form the
Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an sun.
oval-shaped ellipse, similar to the orbits of all the Other particles within the disk collided
other planets. Our planet is a bit closer to the sun
and stuck together to form ever-larger
n early January and farther away in July, although
this variation has a much smaller effect than the
bodies, including Earth. Scientists
heating and cooling caused by the tilt of Earth's think Earth started off as a waterless
axis mass of rock.