Unique Capabilities of the SUVI Telescopes For Both Space Weather Prediction and Fundamental Solar Physics

The recently launched Solar UltraViolet Imager (SUVI) aboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite, provides image data that can potentially both improve earth effective solar storm predictions and contribute to fundamental research on structure and dynamics in what may be called the 'high EUV corona'. The wide field of view ( 53 x 53 arcmin) and passband set covering UV and EUV emission from plasmas ranging in temperature from 5000 K to 7 million K, allow for the detailed observation of structure and dynamics in the high EUV corona. Imaging this region is increasingly recognized as being critical to understanding how the low corona connects, disconnects from, and reconnects to, the high corona and heliosphere during transient events in the low corona. We will illustrate this claim with observations taken from the first few months on operation of the SUVI instrument.