When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

Question

When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

It spreads out.

Space is a vacuum, so there is a lot of empty space that can be filled.

Eventually, those atoms will either rejoin the Earth’s atmosphere, or reach escape velocity after being hit with high energy radiation from the Sun and be knocked out of Earth’s sphere of influence (mostly that one)