They're not quite ready to colonize Mars, so they'll have to settle for their own county in California.

Sitting between San Francisco and Sacramento is an arid patch of brown hills bisected by a two-lane highway in the eastern part of Solano County.

The area, known locally as Jepson Prairie and the Montezuma Hills, is sparsely populated, home mainly to ranches, wind turbines, miles of power lines and, to the northwest, Travis Air Force Base. But all of that may be about to change, in a big way.

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