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 just goes out to space and spreads out until it’s so spread out that it’s practically undetectable. Realistically it simply incorporates itself to the trace amounts of air present at the highest reaches of the atmosphere. The molecules are essentially in orbit of the planet and they either fall back down into the atmosphere or they get stripped away by the sun’s radiation and swept into the cosmos.