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Ablative armor
Ablative armor is armor designed to negate damage by itself being damaged or destroyed. In contemporary spacecraft, ablative plating is most frequently seen as heat shielding for a vehicle that must enter atmosphere from orbit, such as on the Mars Pathfinder probe.
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