UVCS/SOHO: The first two years

The SOHO Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS/SOHO) has observed the extended solar corona between 1 and 10 R. for more than two years. We revie w spectroscopic and polarimetric measurements made in coronal holes, equato rial streamers, and coronal mass ejections, as well as selected non-solar t argets. UVCS/SOHO has provided a great amount of empirical information abou t the physical processes that heat and accelerate the solar wind, and about detailed coronal structure and evolution.