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It is used by the Covenant to render captured [[UNSC]] worlds uninhabitable and of no strategic value. The Covenant occupation fleet maps the latitude and longitude of a planet's surface, divide it into grids, and bombard each grid with heavy [[plasma]] fire, thereby obliterating all life on the planet and turning its surface to glass.  After the glassing is done, the planet is a red smoldering sphere.  After a few days, the atmosphere of the planet supposedly corrodes and dissipates, leaving it truly barren.<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 8</ref> This technique was used to obliterate the UNSC [[outer colonies]] and [[Reach]]. After they glass the planet, they remove a shard of glass and take it to the [[Step of Silence]] in [[High Charity]] where it hangs with hundreds of other shards from other planets.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 338</ref>  

Sometime during the [[Second Battle of Earth]], Earth is partially glassed at an African Sahara as the Covenant Loyalists seek to uncover the artifact of the [[Ark]]<ref>''[[Halo 3 Epsilon]]'', ''[[Tsavo Highway (Level)]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer]]''</ref>.