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How can starship land on the moon

Illustration of starship landing on moon (Credit-spacex) The major concern about Starship Moon landing is moon dust. How will Starship land on the Moon without kicking off dust ?Spacex is continuously working to find out ways to land on the Moon either just by shutting off the engines at some height and falling or using some powerful thrusters on top to land softly but both ways has some benefit and defect .We will take a deep dive into both ways and speculate which is better and if there are other ways to do that . •What is dust problem When huge spacecrafts land on the moon, there huge engines can kick moon dust and can even throw them to orbit creating a huge set of problems. • How  will Spacex get to the Moon with Starship. Its clear that after getting to low earth orbit ,Starship on its own can't go to Moon ,it needs refuelling in low earth orbit .Its still unclear how much refuelling mission are needed for that but to fill a tank that can hold 1200 tons of propellent and assu

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