[1][2] In July 2018, NASA released a comparison of physical features, including Haulani crater, found on Ceres with similar ones present on Earth.

[4] Haulani is located near the western edge of a plateau, with two small dome-shaped mountains—Dalien Tholus and an unnamed mountain—bordering the crater to the west.

Haulani is surrounded by an extensive bright ejecta blanket that extends preferentially westward, with crater rays extending up to 490 kilometres (300 miles) from Haulani's center.

An east-west oriented mountainous ridge roughly 21.8 kilometres (13.5 mi) long and up to 300 metres (980 ft) high occupies Haulani's center.

It is one of the youngest large craters on Ceres, estimated to have been formed between 1.7 and 5.9 million years ago.