diff --git a/src/app/features/body-detail/body-readouts.ts b/src/app/features/body-detail/body-readouts.ts
index 82ff9a7..27b4b2e 100644
--- a/src/app/features/body-detail/body-readouts.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/body-detail/body-readouts.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ export function bodyReadouts(body: BodyDetailViewModel): BodyReadouts {
     measured.push({ label: 'Eccentricity', value: body.orbit.eccentricity.toFixed(3) });
   }
   if (body.orbit.inclinationDeg !== undefined) {
-    measured.push({ label: 'Inclination', value: `${body.orbit.inclinationDeg.toFixed(2)}°` });
+    // Its size: Standish fits Earth's as -0.00054 degrees, which is the same orbit as +0.00054 with
+    // the node half a turn round, and printed as it stands read "-0.00°".
+    measured.push({ label: 'Inclination', value: `${Math.abs(body.orbit.inclinationDeg).toFixed(2)}°` });
   }
   // The period sits under whichever heading its provenance calls for. Same number, same field —
   // a published period is an observation and a computed one is not.
diff --git a/src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.spec.ts b/src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.spec.ts
index 8c96c22..999d6dd 100644
--- a/src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.spec.ts
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ describe('buildBodyViewModel', () => {
     expect(model?.orbitalPeriodDays).toBeCloseTo(27.32166, 5);
   });
 
+  it('prints the size of an inclination fitted below zero, as the same orbit with its node turned half round', () => {
+    const tilted: BodyRecord = { ...earth, orbit: orbit({ inclinationDeg: -0.00054346 }) };
+    const model = buildBodyViewModel('earth', { ...catalogues, bodies: [tilted] })!;
+    expect(bodyReadouts(model).measured.find((row) => row.label === 'Inclination')?.value).toBe('0.00°');
+  });
+
   it('says where the orbit comes from, in the card’s provenance', () => {
     expect(bodyReadouts(buildBodyViewModel('luna', catalogues)!).provenance).toContain('Orbit: JPL SSD satellite mean elements, epoch 2000 Jan 1.');
   });