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

Think of a pitcher of beer floating in the ocean. When it gets tipped over, all the beer goes out. Where does it go? Into the vast ocean. It still exists, but is so diluted, you’ll never detect it in any meaningful way.

Same thing in your example. That air gets removed from the station(“pitcher”), and diluted across an extremely vast ocean of space.