Experimental constraints on a long-lived magma layer at the Martian core–mantle boundary

Rémy Pierru *a-b, Steeve Gréaux c, Serena Dominijanni a, Lianjie Man b, Yoshio Kono d, Sho Kakizawa e, Yuji Higo e, James Badro f, Daniel J Frost b and Daniele Antonangeli a (a) Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7590, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Paris, France. (b) Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. (c) Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan. (d) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan (e) Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan. (f) Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France. * Corresponding author