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Besides thermal and day night bands, VIIRS has 14 reflective solar bands (RSBs) that cover a spectral range of 0.41 \u00b5m to 2.25 \u00b5m. The primary and daily source of calibration for the RSBs is the Solar Diffuser (SD) as an onboard calibrator, and its degradations are tracked by the Solar Diffuser Stability Monitor (SDSM). Alternatively, monthly scheduled lunar calibration has provided long-term on-orbit trends that validate the corresponding SD-based calibration results. In this paper, on-orbit lunar calibration and comparison results are focused on, in conjunction with the SD calibrations that are performed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) VIIRS team. In addition, a recent study showed that there is increasing striping in the VIIRS images in the RSBs caused by the non-uniform SD degradation. 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