NOAA Shares First Imagery from GOES-19 SUVI Instrument

The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, began observing the sun on Sept. 24, 2024. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to watch for hazardous space weather that could affect Earth. The sun’s upper atmosphere, or solar corona, consists of extremely hot plasma, which is ionized gas. More

(Source: nesdis - Oct 29)